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Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by severino »

ansgri wrote: post #19
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 Maybe we've used an outdated version or it was poorly configured, but I remember switching to modern Jira at other company to be a huge UX improvement, with interactive and responsive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.

> Does it still require filling an update form to change any aspect of a ticket

Yes, I guess it still does, and for me it's a great thing, as you can do multiple changes at once and the recipient will just receive a single email notification.

By the way, considering Jira's slowness and sluggishness, I think it even takes less time to submit the entire form in Redmine.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by cout »

TrianguloY wrote: post #24

The interface is archaic, but their api is very powerful. On my company we use redmine to keep track of time spent on each protect, or even as a simplified Jira substitute. We have the tasks, we just need to "spend time" on them. The interface is slow and requires many clicks, but thanks to their api I made an app to do it with just a couple, even automatic if you only have one task!

It's the number of clicks that got me to move away from redmine. I used redmine for many years and then pivotal tracker. Pivotal lets you expand an issue inline and edit it without loading a new page. If redmine had an interface like that, I would probably still be using it today.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by nolok »

jeanlou wrote: post #35

This is one badly built website: Cannot even see what the tool looks like.

Not sure if I'm missing the joke but in case you're serious : the tool is literally the website.

They're dogfooding themselves eg click on issues then on one issue to see the ticket system.

Makes a lot of sense to me.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by applied_heat »

I’ve been using redmine for a decade for creating a project task breakdown, tracking time on tasks and projects and using that data to invoice customers, as well as issue tracking.

The interface works, I don’t mind it. It allows export of data easily, and pdf generation.

I wish redmine’s website for showing users what plugins exist and are up to date was a bit better. Plug-ins always seem to fall in to disrepair, and can make upgrades difficult.

I am running it through docker on my synology nas.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by applied_heat »

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…

Can you provide more detail on your problem and how you solved it? Did you add another category? Did you add another tracker?

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by heisenbit »

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…

You forgot to mention the abysmal error handling when these api calls fail.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by MistaIA »

edoceo wrote: post #13

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-tra…

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