In preparation for the new year, I’ve been looking for a “better” way to manage what I’m “doing” and looking for a better task-board / ticket manager / project management solution to replace my current unholy and very-cursed mess involving paper notes on a whiteboard (magnets FTW), issues in Gitea (self-hosted) and a whole bunch of .md files in a git repository.
I tried out self-hosting Leantime in my development Docker environment. That was a waste of effort. It’s crowded chock-full of “premium” links that just take you to the paid plugin store. I fully expect artificial limits and nerfs to be enforced, too, if one doesn’t pay. (Their “pricing” page even alludes to this, stating that “self-hosted” includes the same as their cloud’s “free” tier. That would be 150 tasks. That’s borderline useless!)
Why ever would I self-host that? Even if I did, how could I trust it to remain free for the features I need, if it paywalls features in the self-hosted scenario? If I self-host it, I’d also want to be free to hack on it and potentially push merge-requests to an open-source project – why would I ever do that for a paywalled app I don’t get paid to work on?
My Docker dev. environment runs off a tmpfs so the daemon got stopped, umount /var/tmp/docker, and that shall be the last I ever see of Leantime. Good riddance.
The search continues. I’m open to suggestions of what’s worth trying, though. Lemmy, what would YOU actually trust?
The classic libre task tracker is Bugzilla. It’s definitely geared towards software development and large projects with multiple people though, and you won’t find anything like a kanban view, so it may or may not be suitable for you.
I know Bugzilla from the days of yore. I haven’t actually used it since about 2007, I estimate, and I’m happy to say that your post didn’t trigger any hyper-ventilation or other post-traumatic-stress reactions so I do appear to be recovering. 🙃
You are right, though: it is very classic. And libre.