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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Excrubulent@slrpnk.net to c/foss@beehaw.org

I'm currently paying a moderate amount to atlassian to host jira for me, and I'm looking for a FOSS way to replace it. I don't use it every month and I've decided it's not worth continuing to pay, plus I want to transition to FOSS wherever I can. I just feel trapped. I'm sure people here know the feeling when using proprietary stuff.

I've used hosted bugzilla before, and possibly I didn't know enough about how to make it work, but the web frontend they had was garbage, it was unintuitive and took forever to respond, and I just transitioned to jira because it was easier to use.

I'm happy to self-host for now and maybe pay for hosting if I want to collaborate in the future. I have a Ubuntu server at home with miles of headroom to run a webserver.

I would love to hear anyone's opinions here. Also any other relevant lemmy subs would be very welcome.

Edit: some good questions about my requirements. I'm doing software development on personal projects using git, and I'm tracking issues using jira. I'm also developing hardware, which means 3d print files, CNC files and possibly gerbers for PCBs. All this can be tracked via git, so actually having an in-house way to host all that would be great too.

So I need an issue tracker that syncs with git, essentially.

I have also been using jira to kind of ad-hoc document any research involved in these things, but it's not great because to find any of that documentation I need to dig into my closed issues. I'd like a documentation system that can handle diagrams, drawings and stuff like that, and if this could double as a general note-taking solution I'd love that too, because I've been trying to replace trello/onenote for that.

EDIT 2: Thanks for all the replies. I plan to investigate all the suggestions, my health has just been really bad since I posted this, but I always try to update anyone who offers help.

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[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

Okay, I wasn't able to review your links before so I just focussed on answering your question.

Trac looks the most promising of everything I've seen so far, I like that it's minimal and also does basically everything I'm looking for in one place. I'll give it a try first.

Thanks so much!

[-] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 5 months ago

I don't think trac has any kind of kanban UI to it, btw. They might have added it by now, it's been years since I used it.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

Okay, thanks for the heads up.

A quick search found this: https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracKanbanBoardMacro

Looks like there are others too, I'll play around and see what works for me.

[-] esaru@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago

Trac was great years ago. As much as I know, they were stuck on Python 2 until the very last moment 3 years ago, so it became almost unusable, and the UI is not responsive even today, not usable on phone. It used to be really great, but be careful relying on it before doing research on its current development.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

Okay, maybe it won't be my first port of call then.

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