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Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by travisr »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #4

Redmine is great. Serves us without issues since 2007. I honestly don't understand companies using products like Jira when Redmine is available.

The company I work for switched from redmine to jira few years ago, after using redmine since 2009 or so. It was a really bad decision spearheaded by a single project manager.

I miss redmine. I hate having to see the constant interstitial loading animation in Jira. And working through small modals. Just load the damn page for the link I clicked on. All the “single page application” junk is rarely executed well. But I can’t say that it or I’m a dinosaur. Sorry the rant.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by boesboes »

I loved Redmine. Best issue tracker and planner I've ever used. Even the git integration was servicable!

But these days everything (work related) is on Github and while it is pretty mediocre for issue tracking, it is better then having to maintaining a seprate service.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by edoceo »

Former Redmine user here; well, I get around so I see a lot of different systems.

Back, c2005 I think, I was CTO-ing for a company that was going through some management changes. The outgoing CTO was a "build it all in-house" type (which I get!) -- however, this dude was extreme -- so in addition to building their own App to make money, they had their own Framework and ORM and X and Y an Z -- which included a bug-tracker. Naturally, it was SHIT and nobody had time to work on it -- cause well the App needed to work and Framework (and ORM and X...) all needed actual things.

One of my first steps was to drop that dead weight. One of the juniors had recently heard of Trac so we dropped that in place and migrated all the tickets (give this junior some stake). A few years later the team was not excited about Trac anymore and that same junior (now medior) was pushing for Redmine -- I was not excited to switch (I love stability).

So I made them do the migration testing, cloning, writing the guides for migration, writing the quick-starts for the team -- sort of "run the whole project". It was not trivial, there was a lot of pre-Trac legacy BS that had just been jammed in from that migration; so we wanted to clean some of that as well. Great learning experience for the team member -- managing and coding/digging in arcane/foreign systems, integrations, etc.

Blah blah right...

Well, that company now has that same junior, now senior in the Big Chair; and they still use Redmine. It's been there for like 15 years! I'm not a daily redmine user (anymore) but Redmine has a nice place for me -- less as a bug tracker and more as a give-a-junior-some-growth-opportunity.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by severino »

travisr wrote: post #11
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #4

Redmine is great. Serves us without issues since 2007. I honestly don't understand companies using products like Jira when Redmine is available.

The company I work for switched from redmine to jira few years ago, after using redmine since 2009 or so. It was a really bad decision spearheaded by a single project manager. I miss redmine. I hate having to see the constant interstitial loading animation in Jira. And working through small modals. Just load the damn page for the link I clicked on. All the “single page application” junk is rarely executed well. But I…

Something like that also happened at one company I worked for. While Redmine served the company for more than 10 years, and it was still doing great, the new management decided switching to Jira was a must. Maybe it can help other workflows, but for us, it didn't really improve anything, it only made people angrier. That was one of the reasons why I switched jobs.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by axegon_ »

fellowmartian wrote: post #2

wow, what a blast from the past! we used it at my first job over 10 years ago.

Same, I was using it at an old job around that time. I think it was the fact that I we were using it alongside SVN which made me hate it a lot as a side effect. Funny enough, I feel like I'd still take it over jira - the ui is fast which ticks my number one box as a developer.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by AbraKdabra »

Honestly, I hate Redmine with all of my strength, we use it at work and it's a really really large deployment, a fuckton of projects, another fuckton of people and I don't really know if the people managing it did a terrible job or if it's just bad. Some years ago we needed two new types of issues with all the baggage that comes with it and it was HELL, we almost had to do a sacrifice to Satan to make it work like we needed. It's so granular that it becomes an inconvenience, I'd say it's the best advantage and disadvantage of it. Also if it weren't for the python-redmine package I wouldn't touch that API not even with a laser.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by n3storm »

numlock86 wrote: post #6

I had to work with a brandlabeled Redmine solution (plan.io) which was a terrible experience. Roughly ten years ago. I remember it breaking every two weeks in different ways and support always told us it's the underlying original Redmine stuff. Never figured out if this was even true or not, but I avoided it since then just to be sure. Maybe other comments will have some success stories and change my mind.

Ten years ago also redmine was rock solid, a bit slow and not up to today usability standards, but solid.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by ansgri »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #4

Redmine is great. Serves us without issues since 2007. I honestly don't understand companies using products like Jira when Redmine is available.

Does it still require filling an update form to change any aspect of a ticket? Maybe we've used an outdated version or it was poorly configured, but I remember switching to modern Jira at other company to be a huge UX improvement, with interactive and responsive everything.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by pelasaco »

AbraKdabra wrote: post #16

Honestly, I hate Redmine with all of my strength, we use it at work and it's a really really large deployment, a fuckton of projects, another fuckton of people and I don't really know if the people managing it did a terrible job or if it's just bad. Some years ago we needed two new types of issues with all the baggage that comes with it and it was HELL, we almost had to do a sacrifice to Satan to make it work like we…

We used redmine pretty well. We are on jira, and works fine too. I guess with a fuckton of projects, another fuckton of users, and less structure, every tool can be chaotic.
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