I am using Redmine and as a free software it is more than good.
But I’m facing some problems now and I’m looking for some system to replace Redmine.
Main disadvantages from my point of view are:
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hard installation – My version is 1.3.1 (installation process was pain in the @$$), now when I want to upgrade to 2.. I can see in the site that this will be pain too
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not so stable – (using stand-alone nginx server) there are some problems like sometimes cannot upload files until restart passenger, stopped working two times (passenger process missing for some reason) etc
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my last attempt to set-up a plugin was unsuccessful
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I’m not Ruby developer and it’s hard to maintain the Redmine – I’m pretty not sure what are the security issues, how to use Redmine with already installed SSL on one of the domains (port 80) etc
So I’m looking for a new system (preferred /but not mandatory/ option to be NOT SaaS) with these features:
Required:
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Project management
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Bug Tracking
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Possibility to generate Invoices (as a plugin is cool too)
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User friendly interface
Good to have:
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openID login
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not necessarily free (but for a reasonable price)
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if it’s not SaaS – to be PHP based, not Ruby, Python, Java etc
I have some experience with Assembla, Pivotal, Yodiz and Mantis.
Yodiz interface is too complex and not clean for me.
Mantis is like from the past (looks like the first tracker ever)
Pivotal is not so bad, but I think is best for issues tracking only (not project management, invoices etc)
Assembla.. very little experience, only for SVN
I know there are lots of discussions, the problem is that many people liked Redmine for some reasons that are totally opposite of my opinion.
I’m spending some time last 2 days to review most popular trackers, but with no success so far.
I’ll try “Trac” now, but will be glad if someone share it’s experience with this popular Trac problem – multiple projects. 🙂
Thanks!
After some research I found needed software.
FengOffice seems to fit my requirements very well.
community version (free)
self hosted (2 minutes installation)
written on PHP
very good UI – I like the way it’s organized, AJAX UI is very good implemented in this case
cool features
.. etc
I don’t have more detailed impressions, but it looks really promising.