Show HN: Open-Source, Free, Agile Project Management Tool

http://www.taiga.io

by eposner • 12 years ago

436 134 12 years ago

mikegreen• 12 years ago

Nice. Clean layout. Much prettier than jira.

When viewing a story, it'd be nice to be able to change the status without going into edit mode. Or something like a transition (aka how mingle does it) to say "start work" or "done with testing"

niwibe5• 12 years ago

Thanks to the feedback.

We have plans to do something like you proposal, because the current behavior requires some "useless" additional clicks.

We try improve this in next versions.

Prefinem4• 12 years ago

It looks very nice and easy to use. Question though. Do you have something for Epics like in Jira, or a way to create sub-projects for a project?

Prefinem4• 12 years ago

Also, is there any future plans for building in some sort of review tool?

_diacritica_7• 12 years ago

What do you exactly mean by review tool?

niwibe5• 12 years ago

At this momment we do not have plans for subprojects and review tool. But we will consider them, as possible future features. Epics or something like that seems a interesting feature. I will put it on our backlog.

Thank you very much!

Prefinem4• 12 years ago

No worries... Keep up the good work. Having used Jira for several years, along with Github issues and some other software for managing Projects within Projects, Epics or Milestones really help for keeping things together.

Review Tools are nice if you don't have one already in place

cjbprime• 12 years ago

This looks super interesting, thank you very much for working on it, I think you're doing a great thing by making it open source. :) It's really frustrating that the tools we use for planning (e.g. Trello) generally aren't modifiable.

stronglikedan2• 12 years ago

Looks nice so far. Looking forward to the "live instance", assuming it will be a pre-populated project showing off all of the functionality.

I manage multiple concurrent projects, and I don't see an overview of open issues across projects. Am I missing that, or are there plans to add that?

niwibe5• 12 years ago

You are right, we currently don't have the way to see issues across all projects, but we have plans to implement something like this for future versions.

Thanks!

stronglikedan2• 12 years ago

No, no...thank you for your contribution!

wingerlang• 12 years ago

Is it possible to change the font? It is so, narrow and tall.

Something else I'd like to see. Make empty columns more narrow when empty to preserve space when it can be done.

A bit off topic, but does there exists any app for these things native to OSX? I don't like these web-interfaces.

jespino7• 12 years ago

Hi, is open source, is really easy to change the font (on your own instance).

The project have an API and the web (AngularJS) application, but anybody can build an application using the api like the web application, maybe an OSX native application. A native OSX client isn't in our road-map.

An example of this is the taiga-ncurses application for terminal lovers :)

enderew• 12 years ago

But the parent has a point. That font is really hard on the eyes.

nawitus• 12 years ago

The "open live instance" doesn't do anything for me. Tried Firefox and Chromium.

niwibe5• 12 years ago

If you refers to sandbox live instances, they are currently not available, sorry. Coming soon!

sogen• 12 years ago

Also worth checking out is Bugs:

http://pixeline.github.io/bugs/

Issue management, Kanban board, extremely simple to setup (Apache, MySQL).

dscrd• 12 years ago

Bugs is (are? heh) written in PHP.

skrebbel• 12 years ago

so?

lgierth2• 12 years ago

Looks interesting, but I couldn't keep the site open for long because it was eating both of my two CPU cores.

Firefox 32.0.3 on Ubuntu

About 62 % of time is spent in FFS.CanvasRenderer.prototype.render()

niwibe5• 12 years ago

Very strange! I have opened a issue for review that strange behavior. Seems something related to graphics.

Thanks!

Jhsto• 12 years ago

I could hear my hard drive screeching when I was looking at the transition on the topmost container. Even though the moving background looks nice, I'd still prefer to sustain my battery for bit longer. Your site just ate 2% of it.

sauere2• 12 years ago

I have the same issue. Latest Firefox is utilizing 50% of my CPU.

ZachS• 12 years ago

The browser is constantly repainting the polygon background at the top of the page, even when you've scrolled past it.

drdoooom• 12 years ago

yeah, noticed that scrolling down was very sluggish.

dendarii2• 12 years ago

Hi! Thank you all for your feedback; you were right about the animation at the main page: we have just changed for a static (and still awesome) image, so you may notice an improved performance from any device.

lvillani• 12 years ago

Found it sluggish even in Safari 7.1 (OS X 10.9.5)

shALKE• 12 years ago

Why do you offer only cloud based?

cpitman• 12 years ago

They are not only cloud based. They have a link to download the code (https://github.com/taigaio) and let you host it yourself.

pinky073• 12 years ago

The kanban approach is quite similar to Odoo Project.

You can test the online demo: http://bit.ly/1CGha87

The Odoo Project website: https://www.odoo.com/page/project-management

And the github page: https://github.com/odoo/odoo

Some of the features I like in Odoo project: email gateway, pivot table reporting, cross-project tasks or reporting, timesheet integration.

sciurus2• 12 years ago

I was surprised I hadn't heard of Odoo before, but now I see it's the new name of OpenERP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odoo

mhax• 12 years ago

Yes, but this is meant to be intuative and well designed.

Snarky comments aside, where odoo falls down is that it tries to be everything and do everything and unsurprisingly falls short if you compare it to a single purpose application.

hackerboos• 12 years ago

I've been using Target Process which is free for small teams - albeit not open source.

http://www.targetprocess.com/

noir_lord• 12 years ago

Thanks for the link, this looks interesting I normally use Trello and CherryTree (which is a simply stunning notes application for programmers (and none programmers but it understands how to mark up code and can export to HTML and PDF but I digress)) but this looks like it could replace Trello at least :).

jldugger2• 12 years ago

Honestly, I'd be happy to see someone write a kanban javascript plugin / extension / webapp that wrapped any shitty PM tool with an API.

NicoJuicy2• 12 years ago

What's your relation with OpenErp / Odoo ? (i'm implementing OpenERP/Odoo for some of my clients :-) )

reitanqild• 12 years ago

He seems affiliated or at least heavily invested: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pinky07

In my head OpenERP was the company that took contributed code, changed the license and slapped a price tag on it? (Anyone: Feel free to defend them, - it might just be my bias against AGPL and the fact that I thought their price tag for the commercial version was unrealistic last time I evaluated it.)

pinky073• 12 years ago

I am the founder of Odoo / OpenERP.

sciurus2• 12 years ago

They have a CLI interface in addition to the web interface. That's a refreshing feature.

They also have a vagrant box which you can use to take it for a spin until the live instance is ready.

https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-ncurses

https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-vagrant

techtalsky• 12 years ago

I love the idea of Open Source applications being distributed this way. Here's our application.... and everything required to run it in a virtual machine.

mihok• 12 years ago

I think these features are really what sold me.. project managers might like having a visual interface to work with (webapp) but I would much rather just be in my terminals

jldugger2• 12 years ago

It's more common than you think; RT and Trac both have cli interfaces.

ams6110• 12 years ago

You can do a lot of things in RT via email also, e.g. close a ticket, assign to someone else, move it to another queue, etc. with special tokens in the email body.

alceta• 12 years ago

Looks nice, Looking forward to the live demo :)

We're currently employing OpenProject[1], a Chili/Redmine fork with extensive Agile/Scrum[2] functionality. Despite all valid points against Redmine being bloated, it provides many features often lacking elsewhere (Auth Providers such as LDAP / Single-Sign On, Plugins).

[1] http://openproject.org/ [2] https://www.openproject.org/projects/openproject/wiki/Agile_...

ilopmar2• 12 years ago

We're going to release a migration tool from Redmine to Taiga in the following weeks. Please keep an eye if you want to try Taiga with all your Redmine projects.

alexruf• 12 years ago

The task board and sprint planing looks really good (even if it seems that they mix up two different methods with Kanban & SCRUM). I wish github would provide similar functionality out of the box.

ilopmar2• 12 years ago

You can deactivate one of them if you want it in the "admin" section.

Thanks for your feedback!

carlos22• 12 years ago

Are there any plans to add git branch/commit intergration?

jespino7• 12 years ago

The plan is integration by git hooks like close issues/task/us by commit message, but isn't planned a git browser of features like this.

1wd• 12 years ago

Maybe you can combine it with Kallithea? https://kallithea-scm.org/

eeZi• 12 years ago

Or Phabricator, which has much more features: http://phabricator.org/

aantix• 12 years ago

Any examples of the video conferencing feature?

jespino7• 12 years ago

Well, the video conferencing feature is a simple link to third party services (talky.io and appear.in) you can configure it on the admin interface of the project.

Anyway you can use talky.io and appear.in without taiga, they are great services!

oparamo• 12 years ago

Some of the text on the home page is extremely light. It makes it hard to read against the white background. From a designing standpoint I would suggest to darken that text up a bit. The "Did we say free..." text is also hard to read. Maybe put one of those transparent black boxes behind it?

jespino7• 12 years ago

Completely agree, We add the issue, and we will fix it in the next upload. Thanks :)

rcmarron• 12 years ago

Having worked on some agile project management tools, it seems that the space has an unusually high number of customer requests for slight variations/customizations. I am very optimistic about an open source implementation if it allows users to easily adjust the product to meet their specific needs. Best of luck!

CCs2• 12 years ago

Is there any such tool (free or not) that integrates with GitHub and it is ready to use?

It would be great to not maintain 2 issues list, 2 milestones etc.

bameda• 12 years ago

Nope, sorry, we have plans of some (optional) better integration with github, anyway the API of taiga allow you to do anything you can do from the web client, and the GitHub API is great too, anyone can write a sync system between taiga and github issues/milestones. But take care, we use milestones for user stories, not issues. You can sync github issues to taiga user stories.

CCs2• 12 years ago

An other post mentioned http://www.getdonedone.com/ which promises GitHub, Basecamp, Harvest etc integration

vangale• 12 years ago

I've seen https://waffle.io/ talked about in previous posts, but haven't used it or Taiga. Github issues is painful enough in the past that, for companies I've been in at least, we used other issue trackers anyway (Jira and Pivotal specifically) so I'm not sure how market there is outside of open-source. For me, Taiga looks like a nicer solution for private projects (replacing redmine, trac, etc.)

fesja• 12 years ago

I'm waiting for Codetree (https://codetree.com/) to be released! I have high hopes on it (not affiliated with them in any way)

hunvreus• 12 years ago

SweepBoard? http://sweepboard.com

hardwaresofton• 12 years ago

Looks great, can't wait to see the demo, and the acknowledgement of entering an already crowded space. Personally I think many of the tools that are out there right now could very very easily be out-performed by an open source tool.

I sometimes wonder if killing another company's revenue by creating an open-source tool (that is as-good or better, which you generally strive to) is moral/ethical... I know it's not bad, but feels kind of weird to take their lunch

Little nitpick -- the "In Beta" stripe in the top left doesn't really mesh with the rest of your style choices (neither in font choice, tone, etc)...

I like the designs so far -- most of the sections look pretty good

shadowmint• 12 years ago

Open source isnt 'the enemy' that destroys value in existing software; if your software relies on being closed source (temporarily even) to maintain its competitive edge (eg. android) thats totally up to you. It can be effective.

...but if open source destroys an existing product, honestly, that product was going the way of the dinosaurs anyway.

Morally speaking, free software unencumbered by licenses, patents and other cruft contributes far more than it harms.

pmontra• 12 years ago

They are destroying other companies revenues (but let's wait and see) and making revenues for themselves (they want to launch a PaaS at the end of the beta). This is what we call business and it happens all the time. Example: Apple and Google have been doing it to Microsoft in the last ten years.

Doing it by open source doesn't make it less or more moral than doing it by close source or any other lawful way.

Anyway, even a pure open source model would have been very moral in my humble opinion: it might harm one company but it lets many more companies lower their operating costs. One company performs worse, many companies perform better. Overall that's a good thing for me.

joemccall86• 12 years ago

Looks beautiful. Our workflow however requires us to view multiple projects under one backlog/workboard. I can't seem to find a way to do that, which is a bummer because this is a really neat looking tool.

_diacritica_7• 12 years ago

Yep, I understand what you say. But every sentence that begins with "Our workflow..." tends to be so specific that is very very difficult to build a platform that solves any possibility. taiga.io has a very powerful tag system. You could use tags to define projects. It's fast, easy and might work...

eddie_31003• 12 years ago

I can dig it. Seems a little choppy, but what'evs. It's Free!

lobster_johnson• 12 years ago

Trying to create a project, but it fails silently in Safari 7.1. Console shows:

    Error: [$rootScope:inprog] $apply already in progress
    http://errors.angularjs.org/1.2.21/$rootScope/inprog?p0=%24apply
    https://tree.taiga.io/js/libs.js?v=1411736467704:7:6833
    beginPhase@https://tree.taiga.io/js/libs.js?v=1411736467704:10:28050
    $apply@https://tree.taiga.io/js/libs.js?v=1411736467704:10:34546
    https://tree.taiga.io/js/app.js?v=1411736467704:11:34777
    $broadcast@https://tree.taiga.io/js/libs.js?v=1411736467704:10:36161
    newProject@https://tree.taiga.io/js/app.js?v=1411736467704:11:64709
    https://tree.taiga.io/js/libs.js?v=1411736467704:12:8225
    https://tree.taiga.io/js/libs.js?v=1411736467704:12:19733
    $eval@https://tree.taiga.io/js/libs.js?v=1411736467704:10:34216
    $apply@https://tree.taiga.io/js/libs.js?v=1411736467704:10:34567
    https://tree.taiga.io/js/libs.js?v=1411736467704:12:19719
    dispatch@https://tree.taiga.io/js/libs.js?v=1411736467704:3:11392
    handle@https://tree.taiga.io/js/libs.js?v=1411736467704:3:6222
    libs.js:9:87982

dendarii2• 12 years ago

Hi! We have added this issue and we'll review it. Thanks for taking some time to try Taiga and for the feedback :D

jipiboily• 12 years ago

This looks great at first.

We will see if the flow is useful to enough people and if it's worth paying vs other options available right now. Project management software is hard as there are so many different way of dealing with projects.

Also, I hope it works great on mobile or it's in the plan, otherwise it might be a deal breaker.

Also, I think I like the fact it's open source with a paid hosting if we want. Let's see how they deal with that on the long term.

eposner3• 12 years ago

Taiga.io hit #1 on @HackerNewsYCBot for a while today (thanks HN!). Traffic up 100x. I was dumb enough to ask our developers if we could handle it. This is what they sent back

http://goo.gl/B57ERn

Each little "ball" is a request to the server On the left: the IP numbers from the users connecting around the world To the right: The url's being served up In the center: The "static calls being serviced by our front end

The brightness represents the speed with which the code written by our awesome developers delivers data (aided of course the great hardware)

Had any of the balls gone past to the right, that would have been a serve we couldn't return. Try that, Federer!

iamtew• 12 years ago

Nice video, haven't seen Logstalgia in a while! At first I didn't think the traffic looked that heavy but comparing the time and requests, quite decent numbers (~6600 hits in ~2 minutes).

And sweet job on Taiga, nice and clean looks!

drodri• 12 years ago

Great job, both taiga and managing the peak so well. Any tips about the infraestructure you are running? Relaying on any PaSS or managing yourself?

_diacritica_7• 12 years ago

Virtual machine, 1 core, 1 GB RAM, <20% CPU all the time.

thefreeman4• 12 years ago

Cool visualization! But the top 50% of that (which seems to be the most dense) could have been completely avoided if you just slapped a CloudFront instance in front of it.

e12e3• 12 years ago

I don't know -- by some guestimates fed into

http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

I ended up with an estimated 600USD/month bill ... so what would they gain by complicating their architecture when they're already able to handle the traffic?

inzax• 12 years ago

It also did incredibly well on the Facebook Community Page...

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1562750133...

staunch2• 12 years ago

FYI: Link shorteners are frowned upon on HN.

DaFranker2• 12 years ago

Curious about why. I'd understand a social stigma against ad-based redirection services, but does that translate into a frown against all shorteners somehow? Or is there some other cause?

fphhotchips• 12 years ago

That is the most useless visualisation I think I've ever seen.

I love it.

eposner3• 12 years ago

kendallpark• 12 years ago

So can we get this code as well?

Xaviju3• 12 years ago

This is generated using Logstalgia, which is a website access log visualization tool.

https://code.google.com/p/logstalgia/

sdrothrock• 12 years ago

Had any of the balls gone past to the right, that would have been a serve we couldn't return. Try that, Federer!

I do see a few balls going to the right -- what happened with those?

eposner3• 12 years ago

Those are 404 error... But very few in the context of the whole dataset

jpkeisala• 12 years ago

Looks very promising. I like the idea focusing on Kanban and Scrum and not making to work on everything and that way turning to too complicated.

Angular needs some optimization obviously or maybe the server is just slow? It would be cool to see text complete when writing users stories. Like: As a... Also, poker planning and retrospective tools would be nice to see.

m_i_s_t• 12 years ago

Concerning your: "the Project Management Tools that are out there weren't making us happy. In fact we hated the whole lot of them. Bloated, slow, ugly to look at and unintuitive, we just couldn't stand the sight of them a moment longer." How does your project relate to http://92fiveapp.com/ which was posted here some time ago in a somewhat similar vein?

_diacritica_7• 12 years ago

Honestly, we didn't know this existed. Thanks for pointing this out, it looks really great! The CC BY-ND license, though, would have been a stopper for us.

no_future• 12 years ago

Am I the only one who thinks anyone that talks about software development methods(agile, scrum, etc) is trying to pull a fast one on you?

_diacritica_7• 12 years ago

I wouldn't say "anyone" but I always like to detect is the conversation is only about the methodology itself, not the purpose of it.

audiodude• 12 years ago

Why is it always the thing I needed yesterday is on HN today?

I went with DoneDone (http://www.getdonedone.com/)

rs• 12 years ago

Repositories (Git, Mercurial, Subversion) hosted by us integrate with DoneDone quite well: https://xp-dev.com/features/repository-integrations.html

(Disclaimer: I run+manage xp-dev.com)

codezero2• 12 years ago

Trying to create a project on iOS gave me no love. Possibly this is related to the existing safari issue someone already mentioned.

Xaviju3• 12 years ago

We have a couple issues with Safari. One of them is related to the layout because Safari 7 has some issues with flexbox but it's already fixed in a branch and should be merged really soon. We also have an issue with this JS problem with Safari when creating a new project that we are reviewing. Thanks for your feedback. Everything should be working well with Firefox and Chrome if you want to create a project right now. :)

codezero2• 12 years ago

I'll try it out with chrome when I'm home. 😃

frantzmiccoli• 12 years ago

The "IN BETA" ribbon is using a serif font, I don't think it's done on purpose. TMHO it breaks the overall visual consistency of the page.

jespino7• 12 years ago

Yes, is a font problem in some browser because we use SVG for the "IN BETA", we going to change it to a PNG.

Thanks for the feedback :)

allan_s• 12 years ago

The project seems really nice, the import from redmine is very much appreciated, especially as most of people who may be interested to use this application are likely to already use something, and will therefore need something to make the migration painless

I've seen there's a ncurses client, would it be possible to also have a full CLI one too. The rational behind would be that this way linking my git repository and taiga would be as simple as changing my hook script to use this CLI tool, same for the CI scripts

jespino7• 12 years ago

Completely agree, I will add this User Story to our backlog, then all depends on priorities or our free-time interests :P

Thanks for the feedback

wtbob• 12 years ago

The splash page is pretty enough in a generic sort of way, but nothing works with JavaScript disabled, which is quite unfortunate.

_diacritica_7• 12 years ago

Our web client relies heavily on javascript. We can't ignore the fact that it helps a lot. Having said that, we are developing a ncurses terminal client for terminal lovers, so it seems we went all across the spectrum with taiga...

JelteF• 12 years ago

Does this have some kind of git integration? Like linking to commits/branches

diacritica3• 12 years ago

Not yet, but it's something we definetely have for the mid-term. This was our first release (beta still) and we could have waited until we had git integration but we thought we should listen first, then adapt to what people need. No surprises here, git integration is something a lot of people would like to see.

ttty• 12 years ago

"Free Agile" read "Fragile"

wmblaettler• 12 years ago

First off, really slick interface and seemingly very full featured beta!

I am a little confused on the Scrum Sprint Taskboard vs Kanban board. We use a combination of the two with a Kanban board being the Sprint backlog/board. It seems there is no easy way to move cards when viewing the Sprint Taskboard and when enabling the Kanban module in the project, yes the Kanban board is usable for the tasks/stories but the columns in the two are not in sync. Maybe we're doing it wrong, but how should a team move the stories through to done during a sprint?

diacritica3• 12 years ago

Hi! There is no real integration between a sprint taskboard and a kanban in taiga.io Doing so could end up being a nightmare because both flows work differently. Nothing prevents you from having two open sprints with two separate sprint taskboards so trying to sync both workflows with different "entities" and different metric is very difficult. Typically, you would use either Scrum or Kanban and "feel the kanban" with the sprint taskboard, but when you active both you are entering uncharted land in some way. So, no, you're not doing it wrong, it's just complicated. But, basically, to answer your question: a team can move a user story (Scrum) to done when all its tasks are in a state that is considered "done". Thanks a lot fro trying taiga, we love this kind of feedback. We will soon launch a mailing list to centralize these type of questions :)

Outernat• 12 years ago

Is there any plan to add any features for the accounting of a project?

diacritica3• 12 years ago

We think custom fields could solve most of what people with such needs are looking for. Accounting is a big word, it means different things to different teams, so most probably custom fields + API (so you can integrate taiga.io with your accounting system) will be the silver bullet. Thanks for trying taiga.io, btw

mzandstra• 12 years ago

Been using Taiga since it showed up on here. It's fantastic!

My only complaint is that I can't edit comments XD

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