In my day job, we use Jira to manage our software development projects. For various things at home, I would also like to use a ticket system, And while I wholeheartedly hate Jira, compared to the open source alternatives I found, it is still the best system.
Is anyone aware of a good alternative that provides a good backlog view, a Kanban board, and the possibility to group tickets together in epics and sagas?
Also check out: https://github.com/makeplane/plane
GitLab can do all of this. But iirc the Epic feature is paywalled. As for a plain ticketing system(that can integrate with GitLab, try Zammad.
Redmine is the top self-hosted alternative to Jira
Yep, I agree, UI looks a bit old but reacts quickly so it’s nice to use. You need to add plugins for some features like kanban.
When JIRA practically stopped supporting self-hosted installations we migrated to YouTrack and it worked quite well. Not as powerful, but the simplicity also comes as an advantage.
Also running youtrack here and I’m quite happy about it. It lacks some features though that seem quite basic to me. E.g. you can’t sort knowledge base articles alphabetically and in the Gantt chart you can’t show the due date of an issue
Also the android app crashes all the time
The knowledge base really could use a lot of improvement. The basic ticketing and agile board system works quite well though.
I self-host Forgejo and use its issues for this purpose, though it’s probably too simplistic based on your description.
get this, we use jira in hw development. it sucks btw
OpenProject is what you’re looking for.
When I tried it, it was quite weird and unintuitive to me, also the Community Edition lacks quite a lot of features.
I think Request Tracker is the closest thing to Jira, whether it’s good or bad is an open question (for me).
TIL Jira isn’t selfhosted anymore?
They require an “data center” subscription now, and they will end support for that in 2029. So self hosting jira is basically not an option anymore.
…and their SAAS version is a terrible pain to use
It’s sloppy. They cobbles the existing self hosted java app into a SAAS, but it’s a horrible foundation. They should have rewritten it, but that’s asking them to pay developers instead of executives and profit was clearly prioritized.
Comically, the organization with the worst history for virtualization now doubled-down on SAAS. This is certainly going well.
Huly is worth checking out. We’ve been on it for about a year. They’re in super active developments so features are coming rapidly, sometimes breaking or requiring migrations.
They have both a SaaS version and self-hosted version.
They seem to be in bed with livekit.io and OpenAI. They’re also still using Telegram and X. That means Huly isn’t a fit replacement for anything.
That project looks great. If they ever move their code out of Github I would contribute.
Check out OpenPeoject if you’re wanting something like Jira. Personally, for home/personal tasks, I like the Deck software that comes pre installed with NextCloud. It’s more basic, but I don’t need too many features for my personal stuff; just a kanban board.
I tried Open project, but it was kind of weird. Also, for quite a lot of features, they require you to purchase a license. The community edition feels quite crippled.
wekan and Jotty are very lightweight and flexible.
Trac has backlog and milestones (for epics and sagas) and plugins offer kanbans. It’s been OK when I’ve used it, including hosting one.
God no
It’s strictly a ticket system without any pm/kanban, but I really like RT request tracker.
