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How Redmine is not a competition?

• Grue3 11y ago
  Way less features. Worse UI as well.
• stephen_g 11y ago
  Redmine is pretty good for what it is, but I don't think it's in the same league as Jira... It does a lot of things, but having used it for a while at work I didn't feel that it did anything amazingly well. We just kept hitting annoyances in the UI, various limitations in all sorts of things in the ticketing and wiki, the lack of good reports, etc. I actually joined the company just as they were about to move to Redmine, and recommended Jira instead after playing around with the Redmine test instance for a while. They were worried about the cost though, and I didn't have much say yet, but in the end switching to Redmine was the best argument for getting Jira. I didn't even have to push for it - after a few months my manager came to me and said he'd already got the funds approved!
  • leonardinius 11y ago
    Hi. Old time Jira user here. Used to use it heavily ... 5-3 years ago. Last few years we use Redmine mostly. In the beginning I had mixed feelings about it. Now I'm OK with it. We sometimes need to switch to Jira in our projects. It's always a pain nowadays. I used to love Jira time reports, now I just don't get them. My perspective: Redmine covers the basics we need, don't have the feature creep problem and does reporting (time reporting) really really well. Rant mode continued: In several projects we use YouTrack [0]. Initially I was very excited: e.g. great UX etc .. But! It's time reporting capabilities are just rudimentary. In the end we do the following: created internal tool too fetch time reports from different systems and to push to our Redmine system (via REST API). Redmine serves our reporting needs well. Still, in some extreme cases also use excel via ODBC.. [0]: https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/ https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/