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issue/bug management, project management, people management, product management all in one, preferably open source software ?

Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> — 2025-05-22T17:52:11Z

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 ?

Sam Gendler <sgendler@ideasculptor.com> — 2025-05-22T18:50:02Z

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:

> 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 ?

Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> — 2025-05-22T19:04:34Z

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:

https://www.redmine.org/

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

Re: issue/bug management, project management, people management, product management all in one, preferably open source software ?

Ray O'Donnell <ray@rodonnell.ie> — 2025-05-22T19:23:52Z

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 ?

Albrecht Dreß <albrecht.dress@posteo.de> — 2025-05-22T19:33:30Z

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:
> 
> https://www.redmine.org/

+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.

Re: issue/bug management, project management, people management, product management all in one, preferably open source software ?

Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> — 2025-05-22T23:23:31Z

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 ?

Wim Bertels <wim.bertels@ucll.be> — 2025-05-23T08:58:59Z

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 ?

Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> — 2025-05-28T06:57:31Z

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 !
>
>
>

Re: issue/bug management, project management, people management, product management all in one, preferably open source software ?

Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> — 2025-05-28T06:59:50Z

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:
>
> https://www.redmine.org/
>
> 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!
>
>>
>> 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 ?

Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> — 2025-05-28T07:04:54Z

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:
>
>     https://about.gitea.com
It does code reviews which is great, maybe the development part of 
things should be independent of the management part . Thank you.
>
> I don't know whether it does everything you want, but it's quite nice, 
> and worth a look.
>
> Ray.
>

Re: issue/bug management, project management, people management, product management all in one, preferably open source software ?

Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> — 2025-05-28T07:23:58Z

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:
>>
>> https://www.redmine.org/
> +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 !
>
> Hth, Albrecht.
>
>
>

Re: issue/bug management, project management, people management, product management all in one, preferably open source software ?

Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> — 2025-05-28T07:31:22Z

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?
>
>   https://cortezaproject.org
>
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!

> 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 ?

Achilleas Mantzios <a.mantzios@cloud.gatewaynet.com> — 2025-05-28T07:32:56Z

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.
>>>
> https://forgejo.org/
> https://www.redmine.org/
Thank you!! forgejo.org looks cool!
>
>