[HN Gopher] Plane - Open-source Jira alternative
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       Plane - Open-source Jira alternative
        
       Author : prhrb
       Score  : 373 points
       Date   : 2023-07-22 08:21 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | TheNewsIsHere wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | viewtransform wrote:
         | SSO = Single sign-on
         | 
         | "SSO refers to a SaaS or similar vendor allowing a business
         | client to manage user accounts via the client's own identity
         | provider, without having to rely on the vendor to provide
         | strong authentication with audit logs, and with the ability to
         | create and delete user accounts centrally, for all users,
         | across all software in use by that client."
        
       | qwertox wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | dboreham wrote:
       | It would be nice if someone implemented a clone of Bugzilla
       | functionality using modern tech. Jira is the wrong thing to copy
       | imho.
        
         | fndex wrote:
         | Bugzilla still exists. And if you think something is the wrong
         | thing to copy, just copy the "right" thing yourself.
        
           | shagie wrote:
           | One of the problems of Jira is that it allows you to make
           | _any_ workflow for its issues.
           | 
           | Bugzilla had a "this is how it's done, and that it is"
           | attitude to bug tracking workflow - it _wasn 't_
           | configureable. As such, it couldn't be perverted into a dozen
           | gates with different approvals needed for each gated step.
           | 
           | It's really easy to copy Bugzilla's structure into Jira. It
           | is very difficult to keep management from changing it into
           | something else in Jira.
        
           | dec0dedab0de wrote:
           | It's also valid to make a comment where a bunch of developers
           | might see it, and hope one of them agrees and has the time
           | and skills to do it.
           | 
           | Or maybe just to reach someone who never used bugzilla and
           | doesn't realize it's light-years better than jira or rally.
        
             | fndex wrote:
             | That's valid, but saying that a product a few developers
             | created for FREE, and made open source so anyone could copy
             | and change is the "wrong thing to copy" is just
             | disrespectful.
        
               | dec0dedab0de wrote:
               | It would be disrespectful if thats all they said, but
               | including "it would be nice.." and "...imho" changes it
               | to politely giving their opinion on a third party forum.
               | If it were a show hn, or the projects own forum I might
               | agree with you, but this is the appropriate place to give
               | armchair opinions.
        
         | ctas wrote:
         | What are the unique features or approaches of Bugzilla compared
         | to Jira? Before Jira was a thing, Redmine was (is?) very
         | popular and often received better reviews than Bugzilla, so I
         | was a bit surprised you mentioned Bugzilla.
        
       | dubcanada wrote:
       | 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...
        
         | windmark wrote:
         | Because that's that most people see Jira as. It's easy to only
         | use Jiras surface level features, like a Trello with a little
         | more functionality, and not the more advanced ones.
        
           | davnicwil wrote:
           | yeah, marketing is all about using the simplest language to
           | communicate truth relevant to the group you want to reach,
           | not about communicating absolute truth to all comers.
        
             | nickserv wrote:
             | Marketing is not about truth, period. I prefer the older
             | term for the occupation: advertising and propaganda.
        
               | esafak wrote:
               | Marketing is not advertising. davnicwil had it right.
               | Marketing is about positioning and explaining your
               | product.
        
         | gonzo41 wrote:
         | Because jira's advanced features kinda suck. They have a market
         | lock because they have been able to own the space with first
         | mover advantage and buy their competitors.
        
         | zelphirkalt wrote:
         | Usually not much more than the basic features are needed. The
         | rest is mostly management feel good goodies.
        
         | bdcravens wrote:
         | Pretty common. Everything I've seen presented as a "Notion
         | alternative" is nothing more than a note taking app, "Airtable
         | alternatives" only copy the data-in-rows UI, etc.
        
       | tmikaeld wrote:
       | Looks great, too bad there's no Gitlab importer or integration
       | yet.
        
       | greatgib wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | uxcolumbo wrote:
         | What's the solution to this? Which app would you recommend to
         | deal with projects that become serious?
        
         | bartels_media wrote:
         | Why not using Kanban?
        
         | lozenge wrote:
         | Just because your project is serious doesn't mean you should be
         | looking at 300 things at once. Hence a kanban board.
        
           | ResearchCode wrote:
           | Or as they call it outside of the agile industrial complex, a
           | to-do list. Nobody is stopping you from keeping one.
        
         | arketyp wrote:
         | This totally expected level of unconstructive critique makes
         | this comment a miniature art piece.
        
           | gjvc wrote:
           | Snark all you want, but that's this person's experience and
           | it's worth considering why that is the case. I'd wager
           | they've been a victim of productivity theatre, with
           | management saying "we need to be agile! make it so everyone
           | -- your job depends on it!". Then, they may even hire an
           | experienced agile manager but (for whatever reason) give them
           | no chance to spend time and effort properly training everyone
           | involved in how to work differently and to use the tools
           | effectively, and how to communicate the "burn-down rate" to
           | the users every time-period so that their expectations may be
           | set correctly. Combine this with the attitude of many "I'll
           | raise it as a ticket, then I'll have something official with
           | which to chase the developers", and it's perhaps easier to
           | see how things can become chaotic.
           | 
           | Perhaps you've been fortunate enough to be employed where
           | these things are managed better than my hypothetical scenario
           | above, but my experience that is the exception, not the rule,
           | so it's not surprising that people can become fatigued.
        
             | arketyp wrote:
             | My comment actually came from a place of empathy. With this
             | comment though, I will be openly snarky when I say that
             | you've now contributed to the art piece.
        
               | gjvc wrote:
               | Thanks for not paying attention.
        
         | wkat4242 wrote:
         | For me the problem is more that 'agile' is now a buzzword and
         | companies try to apply it to lots of things where it doesn't
         | really work.
         | 
         | In our company our CIO declared everything should be agile. So
         | now we log our hours in Jira. That's it :P supposedly that
         | makes us agile or something.
        
           | quickthrower2 wrote:
           | That makes you great at sending resumes to other companies
        
           | ResearchCode wrote:
           | That sounds like micromanagement. Are you a contractor?
        
         | mrweasel wrote:
         | You can use Jira just fine without Kanban boards. That's really
         | the beauty and the curse of Jira, it can be pretty much
         | anything you want it to. To truly compete with Jira you need a
         | level of flexibility that almost guarantees that your product
         | will suck to.
         | 
         | If you run Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket, the level of
         | integration you can achieve is pretty unmatched. The cost: You
         | need to buy the data center edition, on-prem is required to get
         | any sensible level of performance, and you need Atlassian
         | experts on staff.
        
         | high_priest wrote:
         | Alright, I am not denying you might be right, but it sounds
         | like an old man yelling at cloud. If not Kanban, what else
         | would you propose as the 'better' solution
        
           | gardenhedge wrote:
           | So whenever anyone doesn't like something you like you think
           | it sounds like an old man yelling at cloud?
           | 
           | There's no obligation to propose a better solution when
           | saying something sucks.
        
       | bartels_media wrote:
       | Can anyone read that? https://app.screencast.com/jzzS96PuNylg6
        
       | movedx wrote:
       | I've wondering if something like a Discourse instance could be
       | used to replace Teams, Jira, and email.
        
       | jillesvangurp wrote:
       | > 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.
        
         | aiisjustanif wrote:
         | I mean sometimes waterfall is required depending on the
         | industry, especially industrial or space and some of government
         | and medical.
        
         | pydry wrote:
         | The closer you are to agile the more basic your ticketing
         | system needs and vice versa.
         | 
         | You could probably do without one at all even.
        
           | smohare wrote:
           | [dead]
        
           | gorgoiler wrote:
           | Most of my "tasks" are buggy, poorly written, feature
           | incomplete, draft requests for code review which come with an
           | implied contract that early feedback is welcome, but that
           | I'll let you know when it's actually ready, and I promise to
           | either make good on that or cancel the request and say why
           | before the end of the quarter.
           | 
           | Planning schmanning!
        
           | hnarn wrote:
           | I used to work at a company where incoming support tickets
           | were just another jira project (FOO-123), it worked great
           | because you could then relate the tickets to actual work
           | items (BAR-123) and while the support tickets weren't public
           | for obvious reasons, the work items were, so customers could
           | easily follow the progress of the work item without having to
           | re-contact support.
           | 
           | My impression was that this level of transparency was
           | extremely appreciated by customers, even in cases where bug
           | fixes were marked as "won't do", usually with a workaround of
           | some kind. This in itself also becomes an invaluable
           | knowledge base over time, not to mention all the other
           | benefits you get from support and engineering tracking their
           | work in the same application.
           | 
           | But of course, like all good things it didn't last, because
           | the company was bought by some other company that thought it
           | was absolutely insane to publicly admit that your software
           | had bugs.
        
           | anthonyskipper wrote:
           | ^ You nailed it. The only issue tracker you need today comes
           | with your source code repo. Both github and gitlab are not
           | only more than sufficient, they are arguably better because
           | the stripped down natures keeps people from doing silly
           | things like all the jira anti-patterns.
        
             | Hamuko wrote:
             | I kinda wish we could migrate completely off Jira and just
             | start using GitLab issues instead. Unfortunately that's
             | probably a fat chance when GitLab wants to charge us
             | $99/month/user if we want to grant non-developers access to
             | our GitLab. Jira is like $15/month/user.
        
               | neilv wrote:
               | I've had good luck with getting GitLab Issues to do an
               | appropriate variation on Kanban, so long as I have their
               | Scoped Labels (which seems to be in the $29/user/month
               | Premium plan). I like the tight integration with the Git
               | workflows, and I like not having to manage yet another
               | SaaS.
               | 
               | Do some of your users need the $99 Ultimate plan, and
               | GitLab salespeople couldn't meet you at workable pricing
               | for your users who mostly only need to use Issues?
        
               | Hamuko wrote:
               | I don't think you can pick and choose the plans per user?
               | We're currently using the security features of GitLab
               | Ultimate and as far as I've understood it, that's
               | $99/month/user for every user you need on your GitLab
               | license.
        
               | neilv wrote:
               | I think enterprise software agreements can often be
               | negotiated.
               | 
               | In the case of GitLab, their pricing page has the usual
               | easy ordering buttons for each pricing tier, but the $99
               | tier button also has a prominent "Contact Sales" link
               | right below the button. https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/
               | 
               | Once you're already paying sticker price, and have
               | invested in using it (i.e., moving to a competitor is a
               | lot of work), your negotiating position will be
               | different, but the vendor can still lose the account, if
               | customer is unhappy enough to eat the moving costs.
        
             | sanitycheck wrote:
             | I wish.
             | 
             | A client of mine decided to ditch Jira last year. Now what
             | they do is use a much simpler system but with a ton of
             | manual wrangling going on constantly. Lots of duplication
             | across boards, most tickets are in the wrong state, nobody
             | knows who's supposed to be handling any given task. I'm
             | mostly trying to stay away from it.
             | 
             | Your theory works if there are only developers, and they
             | are all competent. Throw the usual mix non-dev staff into
             | the mix along with the and it's a mess.
        
             | IshKebab wrote:
             | I strongly disagree. You can't easily have conversations
             | about issues in Git and even if you could do you really
             | want to have a commit for each message?
             | 
             | I'm aware of some systems that try to tack issue tracking
             | onto Git in a similar way to Fossil, but they just aren't
             | as good as a proper issue tracker.
             | 
             | That said, Jira is a _terrible_ issue tracker. I do not
             | understand how it is so bad given that it is literally its
             | only job.
             | 
             | I used Phabricator for issue tracking in my previous
             | company and it was so far ahead of Jira... It makes no
             | sense.
             | 
             | Something as basic as parent/child issues is barely
             | implemented in Jira. You can only have 2 levels of
             | hierarchy.
             | 
             | You can't put a task in your sprint unless it matches the
             | task filter for that sprint, which means you can't easily
             | track the work of people that work on multiple projects.
             | 
             | You can't even put tasks from multiple projects into one
             | sprint. Realistically you should have a single project for
             | everything.
             | 
             | They haven't even got basic stuff like "refresh the page
             | when information on it changes" working.
             | 
             | And that's before you even get to the core flaw of Jira
             | which is that it encourages product managers to
             | overcomplicate it.
             | 
             | But just because Jira is awful doesn't mean issue trackers
             | in general are. Phabricator's is great. GitHub and Gitlab
             | are basic but decent. I haven't got experience with any
             | others but I'm sure there are great ones.
        
               | smohare wrote:
               | [dead]
        
               | sanitycheck wrote:
               | As you touched on, the major problem with Jira is
               | actually that it does so much nobody (roughly) knows how
               | to use it.
               | 
               | You get 3 levels if you include Epic (Epic > Task >
               | Subtask).
               | 
               | You can set up a sprint/kanban board filter to cover
               | multiple projects, so this does actualy gives you
               | multiple projects per sprint.
               | 
               | I do agree that it's slow and doesn't update itself to
               | reflect changes.
               | 
               | The two groups of people who hate Jira the most are (1)
               | those who can't get it to work how they want it to and
               | (2) those who have to deal with someone else's mad/broken
               | custom workflow.
        
               | andrewaylett wrote:
               | If you're Enterprise enough, you can have a lot more
               | levels than that!
               | 
               | We appear to have four levels of grouping above "Epic",
               | albeit none of them are even visible in our sprints.
        
       | noam_compsci wrote:
       | The H1s are so badly worded. They all feel like they are missing
       | a word.
        
       | evrflx wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | SifJar wrote:
         | Haven't used it extensively, but there is XWiki:
         | https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
        
         | macintux wrote:
         | What I most want from a Confluence alternative, and I have a
         | few poor ideas _how_ this can be solved, is a way to manage
         | stale content. The Confluence spaces I work with are dumping
         | grounds of old, often misleading, information.
         | 
         | Deduplication guidance, reports on untouched content...I don't
         | know how to fix this, but someone surely can solve it.
        
       | tacone wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | flappyeagle wrote:
         | Which issue trackers fulfill your requirements?
        
         | lelanthran wrote:
         | > 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.
         | 
         | I don't really know that you _need_ a light /dark mode switch.
         | It should follow your preferences. I see dark mode websites all
         | the time, because my desktop is set to dark mode. On my Windows
         | machine I see the same websites with the light-mode, because I
         | did not bother to figure out how to set Windows to dark-mode.
         | 
         | [EDIT: The Plane App ignores my preferences].
        
           | oefnak wrote:
           | No, some applications work better in light mode, some in dark
           | mode.
        
             | AntonCTO wrote:
             | And sometimes it depends on the environment outside of the
             | computer.
        
           | kristofferg wrote:
           | [flagged]
        
             | kristofferg wrote:
             | Lots of dovnvotes. I am curious to know the reasoning
             | behind these. :)
        
               | jitl wrote:
               | You made a rude low quality joke comment that did not
               | contribute to the discussion. So, downvote.
        
               | kristofferg wrote:
               | Interesting - thanks for sharing your perspective. It
               | certainly was not meant rude or as a joke.
        
               | lolinder wrote:
               | I come to HN for high-quality discussion. If I were
               | looking for snark and meme content I'd be on Reddit.
               | 
               | In this particular case, your parent made a very
               | reasonable case that a web app could simply choose to
               | respect the system light/dark mode and that would be
               | enough. I happen to disagree with them, but they were
               | sincerely contributing to the discussion.
               | 
               | You came along with a 4-word + emoticon + hashtag parody
               | of what they said that was inaccurate and frankly rude. I
               | came away from your comment not at all sure what point
               | you were trying to make but 100% sure that your comment
               | wasn't contributing to an interesting discussion.
               | 
               | Here's a possible rewrite, assuming your objection was
               | that some computers don't support system theming:
               | 
               | > If you only support system themes, you're excluding a
               | large number of older systems that don't have their own
               | light and dark modes. A toggle wouldn't take up much
               | space in the header and would help those users to use the
               | mode they prefer.
        
               | kristofferg wrote:
               | I see your point - I suppose it was quite snarky. My take
               | is (and I suspect the same as the people who upvoted my
               | comment) that the comment was disregarding another
               | persons feature request/preferences based because the did
               | not match his/her own. It is an, in my experience,
               | attitude not uncommon - and it (unfortunately) gets my
               | blood boiling every time.
        
           | aaryan610 wrote:
           | Hi, I am Aaryan, one of the maintainers at Plane. We
           | currently have the theming settings available under the
           | profile section, where you can set themes like light, dark,
           | custom themes, and more. Thank you for your suggestion; we
           | will certainly work on implementing the system preference
           | setting and find a better placement for the theme switcher.
        
             | CharlesW wrote:
             | Hey Aaryan, I just signed up and am taking the tour, and
             | the body copy (#737373 on #070707) is effectively
             | unreadable while sitting outside with my MacBook Air at max
             | brightness. (Hacker News remains easy to read in the same
             | scenario.)
             | 
             | For accessibility's sake, it'd be nice if the site met WCAG
             | Level AAA contrast ratio requirements.
        
               | aaryan610 wrote:
               | Thanks for your feedback. Rest assured that we will
               | carefully consider it and work towards enhancing our
               | color schemes accordingly.
        
             | capitanazo77 wrote:
             | Please make it multilingual (Spanish). Some people here
             | don't speak good english
        
       | ericls wrote:
       | One piece of feedback: The screenshot on the landing page is
       | sooooo slow to load.
        
       | iFire wrote:
       | License AGPL3
       | 
       | https://github.com/makeplane/plane/blob/develop/LICENSE.txt
        
         | skwashd wrote:
         | Until last month they used the Apache license.
         | https://github.com/makeplane/plane/commit/a3f6d61347ef98171f...
        
         | goodpoint wrote:
         | Excellent!
        
         | kissgyorgy wrote:
         | As a user, that's the best for a software like this, because it
         | means it cannot be ever closed source!
        
           | dspillett wrote:
           | _> cannot be ever closed source_
           | 
           | Cannot be closed source _unless the maintainer_ dual licenses
           | and stops making OS (assuming a single maintainer or group
           | that all agree, or that other contributors have signed a
           | relevant copyright waiver).
           | 
           | (though what has already been released can't be retracted)
        
             | stavros wrote:
             | > (though what has already been released can't be
             | retracted)
             | 
             | This is the only relevant bit. A license can't force people
             | to do work for free in the future.
        
           | jillesvangurp wrote:
           | It has that in common with essentially all other open source
           | license. And it only extends to the version given to you
           | under the license. The copyright holder(s) retain the right
           | to change their mind. Which is a reason AGPL v3 is popular
           | with companies that are looking to sell commercial licenses
           | for their software. There are quite a few startups out there
           | that attempted to keep control whose primary business model
           | is providing a way out from the many restrictions the AGPL v3
           | imposes on users by offering a commercial license.
           | 
           | In this case, it looks like Plane is not requiring copyright
           | transfers. So that cuts off the practicality of them ever re-
           | licensing their software (commercially or otherwise). That's
           | a good thing as it means it is indeed not likely the license
           | will ever change. The bad thing is that it would be hard to
           | build a company around this project. The AGPLv3 is just very
           | strict about having to open source any and all bundled
           | features and imposes a lot of restrictions and requirements.
        
             | rapnie wrote:
             | What if a project has a plugin architecture and plugins are
             | compiled files that can be dropped in at runtime? Those
             | plugins can be any license then, is it not?
        
               | maxloh wrote:
               | No. Those plugins call functions from AGPL's codebase and
               | they are designed only to be combined with AGPL's work
               | into a larger work, so they are derivative works.
               | 
               | But there is a chance that CSS and svg icons are not
               | required to be GPL.
               | 
               | See WordPress clarification on themes' licensing:
               | https://wordpress.org/news/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/
        
               | voakbasda wrote:
               | Plug-ins are generally considered a derived work, if
               | directly written to use a specific API. You would need to
               | build a module that works for many different systems and
               | only uses the Plane APIs as a shim.
               | 
               | Even then, the shim might be argued to be infected, and
               | thus the rest of the module too. In that case, you still
               | could be facing an expensive and risky lawsuit, because I
               | don't think there are any precedents to predict how those
               | winds will blow.
        
       | empty_banana wrote:
       | Looks good
        
       | alexnewman wrote:
       | GitHub projects are wild good now
        
         | madeofpalk wrote:
         | The team at GH really have been knocking it out of the park
         | with Issues and Projects, especially the new Task Lists.
        
         | hiatus wrote:
         | But then your PMs and all stakeholders need to have github
         | accounts.
        
           | thrown1212 wrote:
           | This is the entire point
        
       | stockhorn wrote:
       | Not to confuse with https://plane.dev a container orchestrator
       | for ambitious browser-based applications.
        
       | trollied wrote:
       | Interesting, the UI looks the same as Twenty (
       | https://twenty.com/ ), that was shared on HN this week.
        
       | vegarab wrote:
       | Aside from being open-source, what's the main differences from
       | https://linear.app/ ?
        
         | dvngnt_ wrote:
         | linear ui has better performance imo
        
         | colordrops wrote:
         | "aside from being open-source"... That's a huge difference and
         | the main difference that many care about.
        
       | no_wizard wrote:
       | 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
        
       | slifin wrote:
       | Does this one allow you to assign more than one person to a
       | ticket?
        
         | quickthrower2 wrote:
         | That is a bugbear for me in Jira. Who solos on all tasks?
         | 
         | Subtasks kinda helps in Jira
        
           | asyx wrote:
           | We just use custom fields. So we have a backend, frontend and
           | QA field. Assigned is always the one who needs to do
           | something.
        
         | berkes wrote:
         | This bothers me on almost all project management software.
         | 
         | What I'd love to see, is to be able to assign _one_ person as
         | the one  "responsible" and then assign others ad-hoc when/if
         | they work on-, review-, discuss, or co-author it.
         | 
         | Some software allows multiple assignees, but as the ancient
         | management-saying goes: if everyone is responsible, no-one is.
         | So i'd still love to have one person assigned with a special
         | role or label.
        
           | Mister_Snuggles wrote:
           | At my work we have a couple of different roles that get
           | involved in each ticket, so we created custom fields in Jira
           | to assign those roles.
           | 
           | So each ticket gets a Primary Developer, Primary SME, etc,
           | but might get assigned to some one else to do one small bit
           | of work (e.g., it'll get assigned to a different developer
           | for code review, but whoever's listed as the Primary
           | Developer is still responsible for it).
        
           | IshKebab wrote:
           | Yeah this is an issue with my current company's use of Jira.
           | They're super worried about tickets being "lost" so they all
           | have to be assigned to one person, but then that means you
           | can't tell who is actually working on something.
           | 
           | My previous company used Phabricator and you only assigned
           | yourself a task when you actually started working on it. It
           | meant anyone could work on anything - much more agile and
           | much much better knowledge spreading and teamwork.
           | 
           | But I understand where my current company is coming from. You
           | want a "person who is responsible for making sure this
           | eventually gets done" field _and_ a  "person who is currently
           | working on this" field.
        
         | ptman wrote:
         | Shared responsibility is no responsibility.
        
           | noen wrote:
           | Shared _accountability_ is no accountability.
           | 
           | Shared responsibility is called collaboration.
        
           | noirbot wrote:
           | Sure, but you can have plenty of options where there's one
           | responsible person, but you may still want to track another
           | person who's involved. Maybe another engineer who's paired on
           | the project, or the PM who's taking point on it, or the QA
           | who's testing it, or the other engineer who's reviewing it.
           | 
           | Having to rely on comments or assignment history to uncover
           | that information is a bad experience.
        
             | macintux wrote:
             | Wouldn't child tickets address that problem?
        
               | noirbot wrote:
               | Perhaps? But I do plenty of projects where I'm just
               | paired with another engineer. I'm maybe taking lead, but
               | they're sitting in on all the meetings and helping make
               | decisions when I want someone to check my work. That may
               | be worth noting in a ticket in case I'm busy or out of
               | office and someone needs an answer around the project,
               | even if they don't have a specific task they're
               | responsible for that they'd be assigned a child ticket
               | for.
               | 
               | It's also a level of precision question. At some point,
               | having a lot of child tickets is just extra work if it's
               | mostly just documenting something that could have been as
               | easily documented by attaching another person's name to
               | the parent ticket.
        
               | macintux wrote:
               | Perhaps the watchers attached to the ticket could be
               | used.
        
             | ptman wrote:
             | Sure. Maybe there needs to be an owner/assignees
             | distinction?
        
       | MatekCopatek wrote:
       | 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.)
        
         | hotpotamus wrote:
         | I don't know a thing about either, but the names plane and
         | linear would seem to indicate that one is at least the
         | spiritual successor to the other.
        
       | delphi4711 wrote:
       | Why .so? I understand payara.fish, because payara is based on
       | glassfish.
       | 
       | What is the story here? I'm just curious (and bored) :).
        
         | quickthrower2 wrote:
         | not a bad find of an extension for a common english word. More
         | common than notion!
        
         | senkora wrote:
         | If wonder if it has something to do with shared libraries
        
         | jitl wrote:
         | I think Notion (my employer) https://notion.so/product made it
         | popular. However .so gave us a lot of trouble over the years,
         | so I wouldn't recommend.
        
           | thejammahimself wrote:
           | Out of interest: what sort of troubles has it given? (if
           | you're able to say)
        
             | jitl wrote:
             | - Corporate firewalls don't like people visiting .so
             | Somalia URLs. Wouldn't have this problem with .com. We had
             | to fight hard for domain reputation.
             | 
             | - Back in the day communication between us, our registrar,
             | a middleman registrar in Germany, and SomaliNIC wasn't too
             | good. We weren't notified of a takedown report and got DNS
             | blocked by a bunch of ISPs offline for 8 hours. Even
             | figuring out what happened on that one was baffling.
        
               | RockRobotRock wrote:
               | My domain uses an Afghanistan (.af) domain. They actually
               | froze new registrations after the Kabul takeover.
        
         | KnobbleMcKnees wrote:
         | Short for software
        
         | rapnie wrote:
         | I find the name 'plane' itself curious. As an upcoming product
         | you make yourself quite hard to find in search engines (though
         | "plane issue tracker" gives plane.so as first result in DDG).
        
         | notfried wrote:
         | = "source open"? :-)
        
         | stavros wrote:
         | I'm guessing it's a combination of 1) it was available, and 2)
         | why not?
        
         | gadflyinyoureye wrote:
         | Maybe because so is the 5th of a scale, and this has 5/8ths of
         | the features of Jira?
        
           | riffraff wrote:
           | For potentially confused people out there: some
           | countries/musical traditions use a do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti(si)
           | scale, rather than do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si or a-b-c-d-e-f-g.
           | 
           | This has the interesting side effect that the word solfege
           | (sol-fa) makes little sense.
           | 
           | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8ge#Note_names
        
       | foxbee wrote:
       | Interesting tool. Happy to see it's Open Source. It would be nice
       | to see better roadmap visualization.
        
       | bbkane wrote:
       | Does Plane offer an alternative for JQL (Jira Query Language)?
       | That's what I appreciate most about Jira
        
       | thrown1212 wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | Mountain_Skies wrote:
       | Anyone tested it for speed? That it can be self hosted should on
       | its own gain it some extra acceptance.
        
         | tacone wrote:
         | It's built on top of Next.js, it feels pretty fast compared to
         | other solutions.
        
       | phosfox wrote:
       | Tabnavigation is completely broken on the landing page.
        
       | gadflyinyoureye wrote:
       | I couldn't easily fine an answer. Would self-host run on PI and
       | still be useful?
        
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