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Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by mch82 »

simmanian wrote: post #6

I've been looking for a competitive open source alternative to Jira for a non-profit I volunteer at because they cannot afford to pay for any cloud service and Trello has its limitations. Does Plane offer all pro features for open source instances as well? Does it support login via Google or other identity providers?

Try GitLab with all project features disabled except the issue tracker. It works quite well & simple Kanban workflows are super easy to setup.

Edit: in the spirit of the thread, also try Plane.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by thiht »

smallerfish wrote: post #4

I love seeing competition for Jira, because it needs to die, but I think you need to do a better job explaining your value prop. Your first bullet list of features doesn't really make it sound all that different. Why would I have a better time using this than Jira, bearing in mind that I'd be giving up custom workflows and probably a lot of integrations? (No shade intended. If you can answer that concisely, put that…

> I'd be giving up custom workflows

That’s the value prop

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by nixarn »

Damn so many negative comments here. I think it looks decent, and will probably try it out, paying $10/user/month for something as simple as an issue tracker is annoying. I get that bigger organizations have more feature requirements, but for many companies, we just need a simple issue tracker that's not jira (very biased against jira from my experience, but it's probably gotten better)

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by ian-g »

vxNsr wrote: post #124
Tainnor wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used JIRA at, I think, every single company I've worked at and I never really liked it much... But the company where I work at right now has a really well set-up JIRA board where most things that I need to do are easy to so and there are clearly defined workflows. Compared to the morasses of legacy code I have to wrestle with, I find JIRA now to be one of the least troubling aspects of my work day. I'm sure it was…

> I'm sure it was super painful for the people who had to actually set up the current flows, but I guess that once you customise JIRA to your needs, it can work really well. The issue probably is that many companies don't want to bother setting up good, streamlined processes, or just don't know how. It’s actually not as bad as you’d think to set up. The reason Jira is so universally hated is because everyone uses it…

And then you have some poor suckers doing their damnedest to balance all the demands of all the middle managers who all want servicenow customizations on priority.

Truly just a horrifying situation to be subjected to.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by flicaflow »

Aurelius108 wrote: post #89
XorNot wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what value non-developers are getting out of Jira, because I've been asked to produce reports out of Jira at different times and the only thing they ever want is "give me a list of all the X" or "graph the number Y across all the projects". The one thing they all do is go in and mess with the issue workflows: they never improve the workflows, but they sure love adding states and restricted transitions an…

Nailed it, the biggest issue imho is those state transitions. Why make a state that can’t transition to all others? It takes forever to tease out the intention behind it. State machines are notoriously difficult in code, why add them into something unnecessarily?

We got that from the last audit. They don't like it if everyone could set the state of some ticket and thus circumvent the required workflow. A lot of companies develop certified software and thus have the same requirement.

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by malikNF »

jupp0r wrote: post #75

"Alternative to JIRA" makes me cringe. Why would you put the most hated brand of all issue trackers in your pitch line?

Sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to say here.

If JIRA is the "most hated" brand and at the same time a very popular issue tracker, then "Alternative to JIRA" sounds like, "here's an alternative to the product you so hate" isn't it ? I mean why would I look for an alternative if I didn't hate the thing I am working with or thought it was not good enough?

Re: Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

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Post by yard2010 »

fijiaarone wrote: post #108
xp84 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having used Jira for only a modest 12 years, I have had multiple stages of feelings about it. I agree with the parent that “everybody” hates Jira because “it’s too complicated” — yet when developers try to use a lean, simple tool like Pivotal or Trello, inevitably other stakeholders demand something better for business users, these simpler tools can’t deliver that, and the replacement ends up being Jira 99% of the ti…

Bad management demands bad tools.

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