Redmine – open-source project management • Hacker News Board

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by jazzyjackson » Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 6:36 PM UTC

synergy20 wrote: post #26

If you want to play with fancy UI with some modern project management platforms or just paying for Jira, that's totally fine. If you just want things to work for years ahead and focus on what you do, redmine will be my pick, it has everything I need, nothing fancy, nothing more, get the job done, from issue tracking, to git, to wiki, to file management, to use/clients/customer access, you have them all, solid.

Yes I think of it as the craigslist of project management. The permissions and visibility of different subprojects are easy to configure. Doesn't even require javascript, it's beautiful.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by somat » Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 6:46 PM UTC

no_wizard wrote: post #48

Interesting it’s GPL licensed. I’ve noticed a lot of these enterprise targeted OSS projects are. Wonder sometimes if this blunts the inertia of their adoption since customizing the software triggers a license violation if it’s not shared

Customizing software does not trigger a license violation, distribution does. If it is an internal tool there is no distribution, and there is no license violation.

As a corollary redmine is written in ruby, I don't think it is possible to distribute it without the source code anyway.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by diimdeep » Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:26 PM UTC

adontz wrote: post #3

I am shocked to see the design did not change a bit.

> design

Maintainers inbox must be exploding with offers to design landing page or do React/Vue app.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by mike503 » Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:32 PM UTC

I loved Redmine compared to every other system at the time, probably 10-15 years ago, but administering it was annoying. Even using their own install directions wouldn't necessarily work due to all the lame Ruby crap. Eventually it just fell off my radar as an option because of those headaches.

Edit: should mention I feel like this predated ubiquitous docker images for everything.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by lakomen » Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:36 PM UTC

I found it to be more of a burden than a cure, back in the day. Now it's irrelevant

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by majkinetor » Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:55 PM UTC

Redmine is the best. I use it on the projects, as help desk, as HR platform, as company day to day management. Not sure why people look elsewhere. Its open source, extremely performant with hundreeds of projects and thousands of users, extremely customizable. What more can one want.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by nativeit » Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 8:27 PM UTC

MistaIA wrote: post #49

applied_heat wrote: post #37

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…

Wow, through Docker? How please? And Still with APIs?

There are images for it on Docker Hub. I wrote a Redmine deployment spec for the PaaS I use (Caprover) for my personal app server. It’s a lot like Docker Compose, but as it actually functions using the Docker API, some Compose features are unavailable. If you’re familiar with Compose, you should be able to easily adapt this Caprover template: https://github.com/caprover/one-click-apps/blob/aaa12a4f37f7...

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by nativeit » Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 8:29 PM UTC

MistaIA wrote: post #49

applied_heat wrote: post #37

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…

Wow, through Docker? How please? And Still with APIs?

Here are the Hub images: https://hub.docker.com/_/redmine

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by nativeit » Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 8:36 PM UTC

digitalsin wrote: post #22

We've been using Redmine since about 2010 or so. We use it daily for ticket tracking, light PM tasks, and documentation. We've considered moving away from it for years, but our customers love it. These are customers that are extremely large financial institutions and the only thing I can figure is that they are forced to use larger, more complex systems internally (or with other vendors) so they see Redmine as someth…

It probably fails to scale well, but I have found it to be much easier to manage using Docker.

Re: Redmine – open-source project management

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Post by neilv » Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 9:10 PM UTC

Nice, I didn't know Redmine has a Gantt view of some kind. https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineGantt

I usually prefer to use a mix of Gantt and Kanban-ish board simultaneously, and it's important that those all are in sync with the task/issue system and Git activity.