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Re: Plane – Open-source Jira alternative

#101

Why do people call things Jira alternatives that contain about 1/500th of the features? It's just a simple project management tool with a kanban board...

Pretty common. Everything I've seen presented as a "Notion alternative" is nothing more than a note taking app, "Airtable alternatives" only copy the data-in-rows UI, etc.

Re: Plane – Open-source Jira alternative

#102

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Wouldn’t child tickets address that problem?

Perhaps? But I do plenty of projects where I'm just paired with another engineer. I'm maybe taking lead, but they're sitting in on all the meetings and helping make decisions when I want someone to check my work. That may be worth noting in a ticket in case I'm busy or out of office and someone needs an answer around the project, even if they don't have a specific task they're responsible for that they'd be assigned…

Perhaps the watchers attached to the ticket could be used.

Re: Plane – Open-source Jira alternative

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yeah, marketing is all about using the simplest language to communicate truth relevant to the group you want to reach, not about communicating absolute truth to all comers.

Marketing is not about truth, period. I prefer the older term for the occupation: advertising and propaganda.

Marketing is not advertising. davnicwil had it right. Marketing is about positioning and explaining your product.

Re: Plane – Open-source Jira alternative

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It has that in common with essentially all other open source license. And it only extends to the version given to you under the license. The copyright holder(s) retain the right to change their mind. Which is a reason AGPL v3 is popular with companies that are looking to sell commercial licenses for their software. There are quite a few startups out there that attempted to keep control whose primary business model is…

What if a project has a plugin architecture and plugins are compiled files that can be dropped in at runtime? Those plugins can be any license then, is it not?

No. Those plugins call functions from AGPL's codebase and they are designed only to be combined with AGPL's work into a larger work, so they are derivative works.

But there is a chance that CSS and svg icons are not required to be GPL.

See WordPress clarification on themes' licensing: https://wordpress.org/news/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/

Re: Plane – Open-source Jira alternative

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The closer you are to agile the more basic your ticketing system needs and vice versa. You could probably do without one at all even.

^ You nailed it. The only issue tracker you need today comes with your source code repo. Both github and gitlab are not only more than sufficient, they are arguably better because the stripped down natures keeps people from doing silly things like all the jira anti-patterns.

I kinda wish we could migrate completely off Jira and just start using GitLab issues instead. Unfortunately that's probably a fat chance when GitLab wants to charge us $99/month/user if we want to grant non-developers access to our GitLab. Jira is like $15/month/user.

Re: Plane – Open-source Jira alternative

#108
It’s AGPL licensed which is interesting. Much like Redmine this means modifications or customizations are a license violation unless shared correct? I wonder if these licenses are hurting the adoption of OSS alternatives for enterprise software

Re: Plane – Open-source Jira alternative

#110

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> On my computer it started in Dark Mode, and the experience overall was quite a bit disorientating. Also no light/mode switch icon in the header. I don't really know that you need a light/dark mode switch. It should follow your preferences. I see dark mode websites all the time, because my desktop is set to dark mode. On my Windows machine I see the same websites with the light-mode, because I did not bother to figu…

Hi, I am Aaryan, one of the maintainers at Plane. We currently have the theming settings available under the profile section, where you can set themes like light, dark, custom themes, and more. Thank you for your suggestion; we will certainly work on implementing the system preference setting and find a better placement for the theme switcher.

Hey Aaryan, I just signed up and am taking the tour, and the body copy (#737373 on #070707) is effectively unreadable while sitting outside with my MacBook Air at max brightness. (Hacker News remains easy to read in the same scenario.)

For accessibility's sake, it'd be nice if the site met WCAG Level AAA contrast ratio requirements.

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