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Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

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Re: Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

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Post by mtsr »

ruune wrote: post #62
prepend wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s funny as I think discord is actually kind of harder to get into than the old irc method. With irc there was no history or permanence so there was a relationship between discussion and what made it into the project as source or docs. With discord it’s weird because the expectation seems to be on me to wade through hundreds or thousands of messages to find docs because there are people who hang out and read everyt…

Discord does have an okayish search feature which gave me a desired answer most of the time I joined a server because of a particular program I had. Enormous downside being that you have to guess the previously used wording if you don't have an error message or something.

In my experience it’s way to aggressive at stemming and rewriting and there’s no way to do a literal search.

Re: Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

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Post by pjmlp »

gureddio wrote: post #70
pjmlp wrote: post #65

Most Jira "alternatives" don't really get Jira in first place.

Care to expand?

Flexibility of custom workflows, integrations with third party systems, being able to track down tickets across the whole lifetime (documentation, source control, bug reports, who did what, reporting).

Yes, it is a huge beast, because big corps have huge complex workflows.

Re: Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

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Post by rightbyte »

rafaelmn wrote: post #56
rightbyte wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds really dystopian. Akin to having a Scrum standup with the kids each morning before school. Do you mean personal programming projects or in general?

> Akin to having a Scrum standup with the kids each morning before school Why should I be the only one to suffer through these ceremonies, might as well indoctrinate the family.

Ye. A good lesson in dishonesty and collective delusion.

Honestly, probably a good thing to learn kids how to verbally fake progress and work from an early age and make them self sound helpful and important. As long as they are told it is only OK to lie during Scrums.

Re: Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

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Post by JCharante »

This was a good read, albeit very long. I ordered my meal, finished it, and got in my cab before finishing this article. Congrats on the growth.

Do any companies decide to switch away from Jira onto Plane or is it only new orgs/teams? Because I find that there's a lot of integrated tooling around Jira that keeps people there.

Re: Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

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Post by salawat »

dabeeeenster wrote: post #55
luke-stanley wrote: post #43

Okay it's open source but self-hosting it is not straightforward. The repo's self-hosting doc link returns a 404. Then after manually finding https://docs.plane.so/self-hosting/self-hosting , I am warned that there is a dizzying array of 4 env files. I suppose they are in a tricky situation, in that while they want to stand out as open source, actually having people easily self-host it, is perhaps, not a goal that is…

Spent 10 minutes trying to get it running locally, couldn't. They suddenly mention nginx in the self hosting docs - why?! I don't understand open source projects that required you to fiddle around with scripts, environment files, reverse proxies etc to try the platform out! docker compose up should "just work" ™.

I want to know what configs are needed to get things stood up. I actually don't dockerize things right away. I setup my nginx to forward to different machines in my network. When I settle on a home for things, I may (finally) get around to whipping up a Dockerfile.

Not everything needs to be enterprise whizbang out the gate.

Re: Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

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Post by JCharante »

chx wrote: post #36

> See what 2,300+ folks in a forum get up to oh okay > Join our Discord sadness. where's the forum?

Yup I hate discord. Discord is for gaming, not for school or work. They should use something like Mattermost instead.

But J, they don't want to waste their time with hosting a messaging platform!

Well if that's the case, then why would others waste their time hosting their own project management board?

Re: Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

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Post by SadCordDrone »

alephnan wrote: post #9

> “But what are GitHub stars?” This is weird. It’s almost as if this is a sales pitch to non-technical management who gets to make the executive decision on what issue tracker to use. That’s almost antithetical to “by engineers, for engineers” If this project is driven by commercial interests, then the open-source spirit, if any, isn’t genuine and won’t stick around once VCs want the bait-and-switch. Edit: the blog p…

> All the non trivial contributors are exclusively from a country known for Infosys, clickfarms for social media engagement, gamifying the interview/recruitment funnel (see Grace Hopper convention)

I see your other points are valid but this was uncalled for.

The person who commented the telemetry issue (Kailash Nadh) is also from India and CTO of largest stock broker, he is also known for encouraging open source software.

A large amount of contributors to GSoC and LFX programs are Indian college students.

All the dysfunctions you mention are symptoms of large population - of which I too have been a victim of. But I have seen some very good engineers in this country too.

Re: Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

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Post by amne »

JCharante wrote: post #75

This was a good read, albeit very long. I ordered my meal, finished it, and got in my cab before finishing this article. Congrats on the growth. Do any companies decide to switch away from Jira onto Plane or is it only new orgs/teams? Because I find that there's a lot of integrated tooling around Jira that keeps people there.

The issue is that one-by-one the most used plugins are available only on Jira Cloud to make on-prem look under-featured and have people switch to it.

But I don't understand with all the comments pointing out the traps you have to avoid to get plane running on local why it got to #1?

What I don't understand even more is what was wrong with redmine?

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