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If there's demand, we'll definitely consider offering this.

by kofman 15y ago

arctangent 15y ago
I promise you that there's absolutely loads of demand from companies for things like this, so long as they can be deployed inside their own network. On the plus side, you can charge them lots of money. On the negative side, it's not as easy (or cheap!) to market to these people and take care of their needs.
king_magic 15y ago
Couldn't you offer something where you host the UI, but you allow a client to provide their own data source? That way the data stays on the client-side, and they never have to worry about upgrades, since you host the UI?
X-Istence 15y ago
Confluence is the wiki we use where I work and I absolutely hate it (ending tags is like you are opening a tag, so {bold}this would be bold{bold} (example, I don't remember any tags off the top of my head). If something better came along that helped us rather than slowed us down it would be fantastic.
- jdp23 15y ago
  I checked out Confluence earlier this year and wasn't too impressed at all. So agreed, it would be great for something better to come along!
- drivebyacct2 15y ago
  Oh god. I helped support an overly customized Confluence wiki that was to be THE wiki for the entire company one summer. I quickly grew to hate the software quite strongly. Took me a while to be objective about JIRA's other products when I used them later.
  - X-Istence 15y ago
    JIRA is the bug tracking software. Atlassian is the company. JIRA is absolutely terrible as well. I can't express in words how much I hate and dislike JIRA, it's horribly slow and bloated user interface and how complicated it makes certain tasks... using it as an Agile tool makes it even worse especially with Greenhopper the add-on.
    - modoc 15y ago
      Lots of people here seem to dislike Confluence and Jira. What do you folks prefer? Having used Bugzilla, Trac, Mantis, MediaWiki, and several other tools I 100% prefer Jira and Confluence...
      - berntb 15y ago
        I agree... Multi resistant TB is to be preferred, compared to the black plague. :-( (Mantis might have less capabilities than Jira, but I almost enjoyed working with it. That might have depended on the project. [Edit: On consideration, Mantis was simpler and didn't make me scream from pure hatred.])
      - dools 15y ago
        After a long journey we settled on Basecamp. It is kind of shitty until you nail down your own workflow and the API allows you a lot of scope to do that through automation.
      - timc3 15y ago
        Redmine here. Currently loving it. Tried lots of others but the multiple projects and the fact that I could use plugins helps. BaseCamp was by far the worst for me.
        hboon 15y ago
        Could you elaborate what's wrong with Basecamp?
      - vidarh 15y ago
brunoc 15y ago
Github does this perfectly. You get a VM, fire it up and you're good to go.

If there's demand, we'll definitely consider offering this.

by kofman 15y ago

If there's demand, we'll definitely consider offering this.

I promise you that there's absolutely loads of demand from companies for things like this, so long as they can be deployed inside their own network. On the plus side, you can charge them lots of money. On the negative side, it's not as easy (or cheap!) to market to these people and take care of their needs.

king_magic 15y ago

Couldn't you offer something where you host the UI, but you allow a client to provide their own data source? That way the data stays on the client-side, and they never have to worry about upgrades, since you host the UI?

X-Istence 15y ago

Confluence is the wiki we use where I work and I absolutely hate it (ending tags is like you are opening a tag, so {bold}this would be bold{bold} (example, I don't remember any tags off the top of my head). If something better came along that helped us rather than slowed us down it would be fantastic.

jdp23 15y ago
I checked out Confluence earlier this year and wasn't too impressed at all. So agreed, it would be great for something better to come along!
drivebyacct2 15y ago
Oh god. I helped support an overly customized Confluence wiki that was to be THE wiki for the entire company one summer. I quickly grew to hate the software quite strongly. Took me a while to be objective about JIRA's other products when I used them later.
- X-Istence 15y ago
  JIRA is the bug tracking software. Atlassian is the company. JIRA is absolutely terrible as well. I can't express in words how much I hate and dislike JIRA, it's horribly slow and bloated user interface and how complicated it makes certain tasks... using it as an Agile tool makes it even worse especially with Greenhopper the add-on.
  - modoc 15y ago
    Lots of people here seem to dislike Confluence and Jira. What do you folks prefer? Having used Bugzilla, Trac, Mantis, MediaWiki, and several other tools I 100% prefer Jira and Confluence...
    - berntb 15y ago
      I agree... Multi resistant TB is to be preferred, compared to the black plague. :-( (Mantis might have less capabilities than Jira, but I almost enjoyed working with it. That might have depended on the project. [Edit: On consideration, Mantis was simpler and didn't make me scream from pure hatred.])
    - dools 15y ago
      After a long journey we settled on Basecamp. It is kind of shitty until you nail down your own workflow and the API allows you a lot of scope to do that through automation.
    - timc3 15y ago
      Redmine here. Currently loving it. Tried lots of others but the multiple projects and the fact that I could use plugins helps. BaseCamp was by far the worst for me.
      - hboon 15y ago
        Could you elaborate what's wrong with Basecamp?
    - vidarh 15y ago

brunoc 15y ago

Github does this perfectly. You get a VM, fire it up and you're good to go.