Plane – Open-source Jira alternative

  • Thank you for posting this.

    Looks pretty basic but somehow complete. The first impression is good. Here's some criticism:

    The first thing I look for in a issue tracker is the screen estate to write the task. I understand that some people write a list of issues in the form of short blurbs and iterate on them afterwards, but it always feels frustrating to me to having to write the title in a modal window, save and then open the issue again to be able to see a larger textarea for the description. I also see it as discouraging for people to write better descriptions for the issues they open.

    The keyboard navigation is probably not complete (press P to create a project, you would still need the mouse to focus the textbox and to save the project)

    On my computer it started in Dark Mode, and the experience overall was quite a bit disorientating. Also no light/mode switch icon in the header.

    It is not clear to the user that you can/should use markdown.

  • As someone who typically rejects/hard-passes on products with the SSO tax (sometimes even when there’s budget/will to go with the SSO-included tier), I really appreciate the lack of the SSO tax here.

    The era for security and in particular identity and auth management to be pay-to-play is long over and I appreciate when projects and businesses are honest about that.

  • > Simplify your transition to Waterfall, Agile, and other workflows to keep up team's momentum with Cycles and Modules.

    LOL, at least they are honest about companies doing waterfall style planning being their target audience.

  • Aside from being open-source, what’s the main differences from https://linear.app/ ?

  • It would be nice if someone implemented a clone of Bugzilla functionality using modern tech. Jira is the wrong thing to copy imho.

  • Is it me or does that look extremely similar to Linear, another competitor in that space?

    Not in the sense of the feature set, there's only so many things you can do with an issue tracker and a kanban board, but in the sense of actual visual design (fonts, text sizes, etc.)

  • Why do people call things Jira alternatives that contain about 1/500th of the features? It's just a simple project management tool with a kanban board...

  • Why .so? I understand payara.fish, because payara is based on glassfish.

    What is the story here? I'm just curious (and bored) :).

  • Does this one allow you to assign more than one person to a ticket?

  • Not to confuse with https://plane.dev a container orchestrator for ambitious browser-based applications.

  • Anyone tested it for speed? That it can be self hosted should on its own gain it some extra acceptance.

  • They meant “linear.app”, not Jira, and “copy” instead of alternative.

    There’s currency in this type of knock off. Find a well executed closed source app, clone as open source, pick an alternative pitch “the Jira killer”, then raise YC because open core is the fashionable argument.

  • Looks very promising I will give it a try.

    Related: I would love to see an open source confluence alternative as well, as for issues there are many (more or less capable) options to choose from.

  • Does Plane offer an alternative for JQL (Jira Query Language)? That's what I appreciate most about Jira

  • It’s AGPL licensed which is interesting. Much like Redmine this means modifications or customizations are a license violation unless shared correct? I wonder if these licenses are hurting the adoption of OSS alternatives for enterprise software

  • GitHub projects are wild good now

  • Interesting, the UI looks the same as Twenty ( https://twenty.com/ ), that was shared on HN this week.

  • Can anyone read that? https://app.screencast.com/jzzS96PuNylg6

  • Interesting tool. Happy to see it's Open Source. It would be nice to see better roadmap visualization.

  • I couldn't easily fine an answer. Would self-host run on PI and still be useful?

  • One piece of feedback: The screenshot on the landing page is sooooo slow to load.

  • The H1s are so badly worded. They all feel like they are missing a word.

  • Looks great, too bad there's no Gitlab importer or integration yet.

  • My opinion based on feature and screenshots is that the UX is as shitty as Jira. The nightmare with Jira is this product manager obsession with kaban boards that become overwhelmed once your project become serious.

  • Tabnavigation is completely broken on the landing page.

  • One of the things I like most about Jira is the ability to execute useful queries via REST on the data stored in there.

    Most of the times when I read some post about Jira alternatives is that they completely ignore this topic.

  • Looks good

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  • I've wondering if something like a Discourse instance could be used to replace Teams, Jira, and email.