Thread: issue/bug management, project management, people management, product management all in one, preferably open source software ?
issue/bug management, project management, people management, product management all in one, preferably open source software ?
From
Achilleas Mantzios
Date:
Hi people I'd like to know if people here know of or use any integrated solution for all or some of the above. It would be nice if it supported LDAP / OAuth 2.0 , integrate with plain vanilla git (not github / gitlab) and be open, and active as a project. We are at a phase our business is expanding, the projects also are increasing in number and size, several of those are interconnected, either depending or prerequisite or even inter-meshed . I'd like to have a tool to manage all this, but also a tool to show to the stakeholders the actual picture of our system. I'd be grateful for any hints !
Re: issue/bug management, project management, people management, product management all in one, preferably open source software ?
From
Sam Gendler
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I think the closest you would get to a single product for all that is a single suite of products which are reasonably well-integrated. issue, project, and product management are almost always combined unless you are just using github issue tracking or the like. Jira certainly covers all of those. And it will integrate with vanilla git, though you will lose functionality compared to the integrations with github and bitbucket simply because vanilla git lacks features compared to those. The rest of the atlassian product suite adds plenty of functionality around the rest of the stuff you are asking for. But it's hard to imagine you haven't already considered atlassian, so I assume you are looking for a recommendation for something other than that, but I can't think of anything I've used that is actually better (and I say that as someone who doesn't really like Jira, either). It's a pretty low bar, admittedly.
Jira is one of those products, like SalesForce, which is enormously powerful, but only after you've customized the heck out of it because that is how it is intended to be used. Massively flexible, configurable, and automatable, the setup out of the box is far from optimal for most teams. You really have to know what you want and tell the software how to set itself up to support that. And it helps if you have an agile-esque project management methodology as it is certainly developed with that in mind. It isn't going to dictate to you how to manage issues, projects, and products. It will very flexibly allow you to set it up to work with it in almost any way you like - but you have to have someone become something of an expert in the platform AND you have to have a very concrete understanding of exactly how you want to use it or you end up with the wishy washy, not very effective project and issue management workflows dictated by the default configuration, which is very lowest common denominator.
Jira is one of those products, like SalesForce, which is enormously powerful, but only after you've customized the heck out of it because that is how it is intended to be used. Massively flexible, configurable, and automatable, the setup out of the box is far from optimal for most teams. You really have to know what you want and tell the software how to set itself up to support that. And it helps if you have an agile-esque project management methodology as it is certainly developed with that in mind. It isn't going to dictate to you how to manage issues, projects, and products. It will very flexibly allow you to set it up to work with it in almost any way you like - but you have to have someone become something of an expert in the platform AND you have to have a very concrete understanding of exactly how you want to use it or you end up with the wishy washy, not very effective project and issue management workflows dictated by the default configuration, which is very lowest common denominator.
On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> wrote:
Hi people
I'd like to know if people here know of or use any integrated solution
for all or some of the above. It would be nice if it supported LDAP /
OAuth 2.0 , integrate with plain vanilla git (not github / gitlab) and
be open, and active as a project.
We are at a phase our business is expanding, the projects also are
increasing in number and size, several of those are interconnected,
either depending or prerequisite or even inter-meshed .
I'd like to have a tool to manage all this, but also a tool to show to
the stakeholders the actual picture of our system.
I'd be grateful for any hints !
Re: issue/bug management, project management, people management, product management all in one, preferably open source software ?
From
Ray O'Donnell
Date:
On 22/05/2025 18:52, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: > Hi people > > I'd like to know if people here know of or use any integrated solution > for all or some of the above. It would be nice if it supported LDAP / > OAuth 2.0 , integrate with plain vanilla git (not github / gitlab) and > be open, and active as a project. I've used gitea: https://about.gitea.com I don't know whether it does everything you want, but it's quite nice, and worth a look. Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell // Galway // Ireland ray@rodonnell.ie
Re: issue/bug management, project management, people management, product management all in one, preferably open source software ?
From
Justin Clift
Date:
On 2025-05-23 03:52, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: > Hi people > > I'd like to know if people here know of or use any integrated solution > for all or some of the above. It would be nice if it supported LDAP / > OAuth 2.0 , integrate with plain vanilla git (not github / gitlab) and > be open, and active as a project. > > We are at a phase our business is expanding, the projects also are > increasing in number and size, several of those are interconnected, > either depending or prerequisite or even inter-meshed . > > I'd like to have a tool to manage all this, but also a tool to show to > the stakeholders the actual picture of our system. > > I'd be grateful for any hints ! Maybe Corteza? https://cortezaproject.org We do stuff with it at my work, and it's pretty decent. Takes some time and effort to set up though, but is very capable once that's done. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift
Re: issue/bug management, project management, people management, product management all in one, preferably open source software ?
From
Wim Bertels
Date:
Justin Clift schreef op vr 23-05-2025 om 09:23 [+1000]: > On 2025-05-23 03:52, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: > > Hi people > > > > I'd like to know if people here know of or use any integrated > > solution > > for all or some of the above. It would be nice if it supported LDAP > > / > > OAuth 2.0 , integrate with plain vanilla git (not github / gitlab) > > and > > be open, and active as a project. > > https://forgejo.org/ https://www.redmine.org/
Re: issue/bug management, project management, people management, product management all in one, preferably open source software ?
From
Achilleas Mantzios
Date:
On 5/22/25 19:50, Sam Gendler wrote:
I think the closest you would get to a single product for all that is a single suite of products which are reasonably well-integrated. issue, project, and product management are almost always combined unless you are just using github issue tracking or the like. Jira certainly covers all of those. And it will integrate with vanilla git, though you will lose functionality compared to the integrations with github and bitbucket simply because vanilla git lacks features compared to those. The rest of the atlassian product suite adds plenty of functionality around the rest of the stuff you are asking for. But it's hard to imagine you haven't already considered atlassian, so I assume you are looking for a recommendation for something other than that, but I can't think of anything I've used that is actually better (and I say that as someone who doesn't really like Jira, either). It's a pretty low bar, admittedly.
Jira is one of those products, like SalesForce, which is enormously powerful, but only after you've customized the heck out of it because that is how it is intended to be used. Massively flexible, configurable, and automatable, the setup out of the box is far from optimal for most teams. You really have to know what you want and tell the software how to set itself up to support that. And it helps if you have an agile-esque project management methodology as it is certainly developed with that in mind. It isn't going to dictate to you how to manage issues, projects, and products. It will very flexibly allow you to set it up to work with it in almost any way you like - but you have to have someone become something of an expert in the platform AND you have to have a very concrete understanding of exactly how you want to use it or you end up with the wishy washy, not very effective project and issue management workflows dictated by the default configuration, which is very lowest common denominator.
Thank you! I can see the eternal trade-off : features (we take) VS complexity of usage (we give). Thing is , I do a lot of things , lots of roles, but project mgmt is a must, so someone , somewhere must bite the bullet sooner or later.
I will definitely consider this JIRA !
On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> wrote:Hi people
I'd like to know if people here know of or use any integrated solution
for all or some of the above. It would be nice if it supported LDAP /
OAuth 2.0 , integrate with plain vanilla git (not github / gitlab) and
be open, and active as a project.
We are at a phase our business is expanding, the projects also are
increasing in number and size, several of those are interconnected,
either depending or prerequisite or even inter-meshed .
I'd like to have a tool to manage all this, but also a tool to show to
the stakeholders the actual picture of our system.
I'd be grateful for any hints !