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

436 points by eposner 12y ago

mikegreen 12y 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"
- niwibe 12y 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.
Prefinem 12y 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?
- Prefinem 12y ago
  Also, is there any future plans for building in some sort of review tool?
  - _diacritica_ 12y ago
    What do you exactly mean by review tool?
    - Prefinem 12y ago
      With the Atlassian Tools, there is Crucible which allows you to pull in revisions to be able to compare and diff files and post comments.
- niwibe 12y 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!
  - Prefinem 12y 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 12y 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.
stronglikedan 12y 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?
- niwibe 12y 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!
  - stronglikedan 12y ago
    No, no...thank you for your contribution!
wingerlang 12y 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.
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- jespino 12y 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 12y ago
    But the parent has a point. That font is really hard on the eyes.
    - Xaviju 12y ago
      Taiga design team here! We are currently using two fonts: - "Open Sans Condensed Light" for the titles. - "Droid Sans" for the text. Both are well known fonts and extremely used. We used Droid Sans in the text to make it easily readable. Titles are supposed to be readable, of course, but creative at the same time. We added the issue to review with more testers if they see that problem as well. Thanks for the feedback :)
      - tallerholler 12y ago
        Hello, Great application, I'm especially impressed with the django/rest-framework backend (getting some ideas for my own project from looking at how you guys implemented permissions...) That said, the first thing that jumped out when I tried it was the fonts. It seems like the use of tall and skinny fonts makes it hard to read and imo hurts the design. Definitely get more feedback on those and check out other modern/popular webapps to get ideas! Other than that great job! (PS It'd be awesome if you guys blogged about your use with django/restframework/angular if you haven't already!)
nawitus 12y ago
The "open live instance" doesn't do anything for me. Tried Firefox and Chromium.
- niwibe 12y ago
  If you refers to sandbox live instances, they are currently not available, sorry. Coming soon!
sogen 12y ago
Also worth checking out is Bugs: http://pixeline.github.io/bugs/ http://pixeline.github.io/bugs/ Issue management, Kanban board, extremely simple to setup (Apache, MySQL).
- dscrd 12y ago
  Bugs is (are? heh) written in PHP.
  - skrebbel 12y ago
    so?
    - NicoJuicy 12y ago
      He's making a spelling joke, as Bugs is plural but a project on itselve is singular ;) So it should be, Bugs is written in PHP ;)
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lgierth 12y 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()
- niwibe 12y ago
  Very strange! I have opened a issue for review that strange behavior. Seems something related to graphics. Thanks!
  - Jhsto 12y 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.
    - mtrpcic 12y ago
      I doubt it was your hard drive screeching you heard. There's nothing happening on that page that would be writing to disk. Maybe the fans were going nuts trying to keep the CPU cool.
      - pXMzR2A 12y ago
        Could be swapping in and out of ram to disk? That makes a lot of noise (from experience).
      - lgierth 12y ago
        Might be the CPU too. My previous laptop with a first-gen i5 made quiet, but audible screeching noises sometimes.
        nacs 12y ago
        Most likely just your CPU or case fans picking up speed to compensate for higher CPU usage/heat. Pretty sure you wouldn't be able to hear the actual CPU,.
shALKE 12y ago
Why do you offer only cloud based?
- cpitman 12y ago
  They are not only cloud based. They have a link to download the code (https://github.com/taigaio https://github.com/taigaio) and let you host it yourself.
pinky07 12y ago
The kanban approach is quite similar to Odoo Project. You can test the online demo: http://bit.ly/1CGha87 http://bit.ly/1CGha87 The Odoo Project website: https://www.odoo.com/page/project-management https://www.odoo.com/page/project-management And the github page: https://github.com/odoo/odoo 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.
- sciurus 12y 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odoo
- mhax 12y 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 12y ago
  I've been using Target Process which is free for small teams - albeit not open source. http://www.targetprocess.com/ http://www.targetprocess.com/
  - noir_lord 12y 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 :).
- jldugger 12y 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.
sciurus 12y 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-ncurses https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-vagrant https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-vagrant
- techtalsky 12y 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 12y 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
- jldugger 12y ago
  It's more common than you think; RT and Trac both have cli interfaces.
  - ams6110 12y 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 12y 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/ http://openproject.org/ [2] https://www.openproject.org/projects/openproject/wiki/Agile_Teams https://www.openproject.org/projects/openproject/wiki/Agile_...
- ilopmar 12y 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 12y 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.
- ilopmar 12y ago
  You can deactivate one of them if you want it in the "admin" section. Thanks for your feedback!
carlos22 12y ago
Are there any plans to add git branch/commit intergration?
- jespino 12y 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 12y ago
  Maybe you can combine it with Kallithea? https://kallithea-scm.org/ https://kallithea-scm.org/
  - eeZi 12y ago
    Or Phabricator, which has much more features: http://phabricator.org/ http://phabricator.org/
aantix 12y ago
Any examples of the video conferencing feature?
- jespino 12y 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 12y 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?
- jespino 12y ago
  Completely agree, We add the issue, and we will fix it in the next upload. Thanks :)
rcmarron 12y 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!
CCs 12y 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 12y 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.
  - CCs 12y ago
    An other post mentioned http://www.getdonedone.com/ http://www.getdonedone.com/ which promises GitHub, Basecamp, Harvest etc integration
- vangale 12y ago
  I've seen https://waffle.io/ 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 12y ago
  I'm waiting for Codetree (https://codetree.com/ https://codetree.com/) to be released! I have high hopes on it (not affiliated with them in any way)
- hunvreus 12y ago
  SweepBoard? http://sweepboard.com http://sweepboard.com
hardwaresofton 12y 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 12y 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 12y 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.
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joemccall86 12y 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_ 12y 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 12y ago
I can dig it. Seems a little choppy, but what'evs. It's Free!
lobster_johnson 12y 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
- dendarii 12y 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 12y 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.
eposner 12y 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 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 12y 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 12y 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_ 12y ago
    Virtual machine, 1 core, 1 GB RAM, <20% CPU all the time.
    - sanemat 12y ago
      Awesome.
- thefreeman 12y 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.
jpkeisala 12y 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 12y 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/ http://92fiveapp.com/ which was posted here some time ago in a somewhat similar vein?
- _diacritica_ 12y 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 12y 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_ 12y 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 12y ago
Why is it always the thing I needed yesterday is on HN today? I went with DoneDone (http://www.getdonedone.com/ http://www.getdonedone.com/)
- rs 12y ago
  Repositories (Git, Mercurial, Subversion) hosted by us integrate with DoneDone quite well: https://xp-dev.com/features/repository-integrations.html https://xp-dev.com/features/repository-integrations.html (Disclaimer: I run+manage xp-dev.com)
codezero 12y ago
Trying to create a project on iOS gave me no love. Possibly this is related to the existing safari issue someone already mentioned.
- Xaviju 12y 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. :)
  - codezero 12y ago
    I'll try it out with chrome when I'm home. 😃
frantzmiccoli 12y 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.
- jespino 12y 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 12y 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
- jespino 12y 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 12y ago
The splash page is pretty enough in a generic sort of way, but nothing works with JavaScript disabled, which is quite unfortunate.
- _diacritica_ 12y 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 12y ago
Does this have some kind of git integration? Like linking to commits/branches
- diacritica 12y 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 12y ago
"Free Agile" read "Fragile"
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wmblaettler 12y 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?
- diacritica 12y 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 12y ago
Is there any plan to add any features for the accounting of a project?
- diacritica 12y 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
Outernat 12y ago
Is there any plan to add any features for the accounting of a project?
mzandstra 12y ago
Been using Taiga since it showed up on here. It's fantastic! My only complaint is that I can't edit comments XD

436 points by eposner 12y 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"

niwibe 12y 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.

Prefinem 12y 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?

Prefinem 12y ago
Also, is there any future plans for building in some sort of review tool?
- _diacritica_ 12y ago
  What do you exactly mean by review tool?
  - Prefinem 12y ago
    With the Atlassian Tools, there is Crucible which allows you to pull in revisions to be able to compare and diff files and post comments.
niwibe 12y 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!
- Prefinem 12y 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 12y 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.

stronglikedan 12y 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?

niwibe 12y 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!
- stronglikedan 12y ago
  No, no...thank you for your contribution!

wingerlang 12y 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.

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jespino 12y 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 12y ago
  But the parent has a point. That font is really hard on the eyes.
  - Xaviju 12y ago
    Taiga design team here! We are currently using two fonts: - "Open Sans Condensed Light" for the titles. - "Droid Sans" for the text. Both are well known fonts and extremely used. We used Droid Sans in the text to make it easily readable. Titles are supposed to be readable, of course, but creative at the same time. We added the issue to review with more testers if they see that problem as well. Thanks for the feedback :)
    - tallerholler 12y ago
      Hello, Great application, I'm especially impressed with the django/rest-framework backend (getting some ideas for my own project from looking at how you guys implemented permissions...) That said, the first thing that jumped out when I tried it was the fonts. It seems like the use of tall and skinny fonts makes it hard to read and imo hurts the design. Definitely get more feedback on those and check out other modern/popular webapps to get ideas! Other than that great job! (PS It'd be awesome if you guys blogged about your use with django/restframework/angular if you haven't already!)

nawitus 12y ago

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

niwibe 12y ago
If you refers to sandbox live instances, they are currently not available, sorry. Coming soon!

sogen 12y ago

Also worth checking out is Bugs: http://pixeline.github.io/bugs/ http://pixeline.github.io/bugs/ Issue management, Kanban board, extremely simple to setup (Apache, MySQL).

dscrd 12y ago
Bugs is (are? heh) written in PHP.
- skrebbel 12y ago
  so?
  - NicoJuicy 12y ago
    He's making a spelling joke, as Bugs is plural but a project on itselve is singular ;) So it should be, Bugs is written in PHP ;)
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lgierth 12y 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()

niwibe 12y ago
Very strange! I have opened a issue for review that strange behavior. Seems something related to graphics. Thanks!
- Jhsto 12y 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.
  - mtrpcic 12y ago
    I doubt it was your hard drive screeching you heard. There's nothing happening on that page that would be writing to disk. Maybe the fans were going nuts trying to keep the CPU cool.
    - pXMzR2A 12y ago
      Could be swapping in and out of ram to disk? That makes a lot of noise (from experience).
    - lgierth 12y ago
      Might be the CPU too. My previous laptop with a first-gen i5 made quiet, but audible screeching noises sometimes.
      - nacs 12y ago
        Most likely just your CPU or case fans picking up speed to compensate for higher CPU usage/heat. Pretty sure you wouldn't be able to hear the actual CPU,.

shALKE 12y ago

Why do you offer only cloud based?

cpitman 12y ago
They are not only cloud based. They have a link to download the code (https://github.com/taigaio https://github.com/taigaio) and let you host it yourself.

pinky07 12y ago

The kanban approach is quite similar to Odoo Project. You can test the online demo: http://bit.ly/1CGha87 http://bit.ly/1CGha87 The Odoo Project website: https://www.odoo.com/page/project-management https://www.odoo.com/page/project-management And the github page: https://github.com/odoo/odoo 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.

sciurus 12y 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odoo
mhax 12y 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 12y ago
I've been using Target Process which is free for small teams - albeit not open source. http://www.targetprocess.com/ http://www.targetprocess.com/
- noir_lord 12y 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 :).
jldugger 12y 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.

sciurus 12y 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-ncurses https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-vagrant https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-vagrant

techtalsky 12y 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 12y 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
jldugger 12y ago
It's more common than you think; RT and Trac both have cli interfaces.
- ams6110 12y 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 12y 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/ http://openproject.org/ [2] https://www.openproject.org/projects/openproject/wiki/Agile_Teams https://www.openproject.org/projects/openproject/wiki/Agile_...

ilopmar 12y 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 12y 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.

ilopmar 12y ago
You can deactivate one of them if you want it in the "admin" section. Thanks for your feedback!

carlos22 12y ago

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

jespino 12y 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 12y ago
Maybe you can combine it with Kallithea? https://kallithea-scm.org/ https://kallithea-scm.org/
- eeZi 12y ago
  Or Phabricator, which has much more features: http://phabricator.org/ http://phabricator.org/

aantix 12y ago

Any examples of the video conferencing feature?

jespino 12y 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 12y 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?

jespino 12y ago
Completely agree, We add the issue, and we will fix it in the next upload. Thanks :)

rcmarron 12y 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!

CCs 12y 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 12y 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.
- CCs 12y ago
  An other post mentioned http://www.getdonedone.com/ http://www.getdonedone.com/ which promises GitHub, Basecamp, Harvest etc integration
vangale 12y ago
I've seen https://waffle.io/ 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 12y ago
I'm waiting for Codetree (https://codetree.com/ https://codetree.com/) to be released! I have high hopes on it (not affiliated with them in any way)
hunvreus 12y ago
SweepBoard? http://sweepboard.com http://sweepboard.com

hardwaresofton 12y 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 12y 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 12y 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.

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joemccall86 12y 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_ 12y 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 12y ago

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

lobster_johnson 12y 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

dendarii 12y 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 12y 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.

eposner 12y 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 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 12y 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 12y 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_ 12y ago
  Virtual machine, 1 core, 1 GB RAM, <20% CPU all the time.
  - sanemat 12y ago
    Awesome.
thefreeman 12y 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.

jpkeisala 12y 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 12y 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/ http://92fiveapp.com/ which was posted here some time ago in a somewhat similar vein?

_diacritica_ 12y 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 12y 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_ 12y 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 12y ago

Why is it always the thing I needed yesterday is on HN today? I went with DoneDone (http://www.getdonedone.com/ http://www.getdonedone.com/)

rs 12y ago
Repositories (Git, Mercurial, Subversion) hosted by us integrate with DoneDone quite well: https://xp-dev.com/features/repository-integrations.html https://xp-dev.com/features/repository-integrations.html (Disclaimer: I run+manage xp-dev.com)

codezero 12y ago

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

Xaviju 12y 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. :)
- codezero 12y ago
  I'll try it out with chrome when I'm home. 😃

frantzmiccoli 12y 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.

jespino 12y 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 12y 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

jespino 12y 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 12y ago

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

_diacritica_ 12y 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 12y ago

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

diacritica 12y 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 12y ago

"Free Agile" read "Fragile"

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wmblaettler 12y 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?

diacritica 12y 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 12y ago

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

diacritica 12y 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

Outernat 12y ago

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

mzandstra 12y ago

Been using Taiga since it showed up on here. It's fantastic! My only complaint is that I can't edit comments XD