issue/bug management, project management, people management, product management all in one, preferably open source software ?
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 !
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.
On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM Achilleas Mantzios <
a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> wrote:
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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 !
On 5/22/25 10:52, 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 use Redmine:
My git integration is browse only per:
https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineRepositories#Git-repository
If you need more than that you will need to some searching.
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 !
--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
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:
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
Am 22.05.25 21:04 schrieb(en) Adrian Klaver:
On 5/22/25 10:52, 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 use Redmine:
+1 for Redmine!
Completely FOSS, written in Ruby. I use it at work, with Postgres as backend, for hundreds of projects, and ~200 users and groups. LDAP auth works ootb, for sync'ing LDAP users and groups a plugin is needed (search for “redmine ldap sync”, which is quite old and might need minor fixes or a forked version for the latest Redmine 6). Never tried OAuth 2, but iirc a plugin is available.
You'll find a plethora of plugins (see <https://www.redmine.org/plugins>), both FOSS and closed-source, and it's pretty easy to write your own extensions (in Ruby, though, which is not my favourite language, but not too difficult).
Hth, Albrecht.
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?
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
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.
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 !
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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 !
On 5/22/25 20:04, Adrian Klaver wrote:
On 5/22/25 10:52, 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 use Redmine:
My git integration is browse only per:
https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineRepositories#Git-repository
If you need more than that you will need to some searching.
Thank you, I've used redmine in the past in a previous job and it was
nice (better than youtrack in many aspects). I'll give it a shot!
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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 !
On 5/22/25 20:23, Ray O'Donnell wrote:
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:
It does code reviews which is great, maybe the development part of
things should be independent of the management part . Thank you.
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I don't know whether it does everything you want, but it's quite nice,
and worth a look.Ray.
On 5/22/25 20:33, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
Am 22.05.25 21:04 schrieb(en) Adrian Klaver:
On 5/22/25 10:52, 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 use Redmine:
+1 for Redmine!
Completely FOSS, written in Ruby. I use it at work, with Postgres as backend, for hundreds of projects, and ~200 users and groups. LDAP auth works ootb, for sync'ing LDAP users and groups a plugin is needed (search for “redmine ldap sync”, which is quite old and might need minor fixes or a forked version for the latest Redmine 6). Never tried OAuth 2, but iirc a plugin is available.
You'll find a plethora of plugins (see <https://www.redmine.org/plugins>), both FOSS and closed-source, and it's pretty easy to write your own extensions (in Ruby, though, which is not my favourite language, but not too difficult).
Thank you, redmine is on the radar !
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Hth, Albrecht.
On 5/23/25 00:23, Justin Clift wrote:
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?
Hi I tend to think Corteza as an opensource ERP platform just like SAP
or saleforce, this is a different thing, please enlighten if I am mistaken.
I just want something to fully manage my programmers, make reports to
the ppl above me, and give me my time to do PostgreSQL things, this is
the idea!
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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
On 5/23/25 09:58, Wim Bertels wrote:
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.
Thank you!! forgejo.org looks cool!