I am shocked to see the design did not change a bit.
Why should it change? It serves its purpose well.
Is there nothing from UX perspective to improve? Like, absolutely nothing? Is it perfect then?
Redmine – open-source project management
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Re: Redmine – open-source project management
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why should it change? It serves its purpose well.
Is there nothing from UX perspective to improve? Like, absolutely nothing? Is it perfect then?
UX improvements might not be as high in the priority list as other improvements.
Further, as far as I remember, (it’s been a while since I administered a red mine instance) it’s quite possible for an instance owner to actually modify the UI for themselves.
Finally, UX changes come with a significant retraining cost.
With all that considered, it’s quite possible for UX improvements to exist but it also be the right decision to not make those changes.
Re: Redmine – open-source project management
#73Here’s what I remember about Redmine. It was a really great project but it had an iron fisted dictator maintaining it. The big problem was that it severely discouraged outside maintainers. The original creator/maintainer prioritized stability for his own uses over everything else.
I remember there was a fork (chiliproject) that was created that initially had a lot of contributors and enthusiasm that however fizzled it out quite quickly. Turns out, maintaining an issue tracker is a major labor of love that very few can really commit to.
Re: Redmine – open-source project management
#74Redmine is great. Serves us without issues since 2007. I honestly don't understand companies using products like Jira when Redmine is available.
I'm currently using GitHub Projects for the Kannan view that integrates with Issues. Does Redmine have that feature?
Re: Redmine – open-source project management
#75I 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.
This is simply not true. Redmine is one of the highest quality open source tools. If that was the case, it was most definitelly related to plugins. Using a lot of plugins is pain as they don't follow the Redmine pace and soon you are locked on latest version that works for you. With more of them you must count on interactions too. I was using 20+ plugins on Redmine and it was pain to maintain. Now I use 3 that are maintained in last decade constantly and life is goood.
Re: Redmine – open-source project management
#76The 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!
I wrote PowerShell wrapper and automate most of the tasks with it (we even have some bots using it, that can be controlled via issue notes).
Re: Redmine – open-source project management
#77Redmine 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.
No you can right click and edit multiple tickets at once
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#78Re: Redmine – open-source project management
#79I 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.
This is simply not true. Redmine is one of the highest quality open source tools. If that was the case, it was most definitelly related to plugins. Using a lot of plugins is pain as they don't follow the Redmine pace and soon you are locked on latest version that works for you. With more of them you must count on interactions too. I was using 20+ plugins on Redmine and it was pain to maintain. Now I use 3 that are ma…
What plugins are you using?
I used to have a plug-in that did burn down charts but it depended on flash and doesn’t work anymore
Re: Redmine – open-source project management
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is simply not true. Redmine is one of the highest quality open source tools. If that was the case, it was most definitelly related to plugins. Using a lot of plugins is pain as they don't follow the Redmine pace and soon you are locked on latest version that works for you. With more of them you must count on interactions too. I was using 20+ plugins on Redmine and it was pain to maintain. Now I use 3 that are ma…
What plugins are you using? I used to have a plug-in that did burn down charts but it depended on flash and doesn’t work anymore
1. DMSF, Redmine LDAP Sync, Redmine Silencer 3
2. Redmine Messenger, Redmine Helpdesk, Redmine People
Group 1 are mandatory for me. Group 2 are nice to have but I can live without those.