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Very good agile support (Scrum, kanban, hybrid) as well as development tools (git, pr, ci).

We (I'm from the dev team) don't aims to re-do a "simple" alternative to jira because there are tons of them and they fall short when things to track get more complex. You can do simple (as github) you can do hellish (as jira) but unlike jira, you don't mandate one model over another (no hundreds of un-necessary fields because someone asked them once).

It's GPL, there is an entreprise plan, it's available on prem and cloud.

You get the customization to yet another level as you are not constraint by the fact that templates are shared across your organization. You can tweak and customize every single tracker (issue type) with it's own fields & values without impacting others and without depending on an admin for that. You can deep dive with https://blog.tuleap.org/tuleap-versus-jira-software/

[1] https://www.tuleap.org/

Tuleap shines with very advanced tracking capabilities and, most important, empower end users to manage it. Unlike Jira, you don't depend on a central admin to tweak you configuration, everything is at hand.

Git & CI capabilities are built-in but if you prefer gitlab for that, you will have soon an integration between the 2 tools. It's part of the next delivery [2] due mid november.

[1] https://www.tuleap.org [2] https://tuleap.net/plugins/agiledashboard/?group_id=101&plan...

[1] https://www.tuleap.org [2] https://blog.tuleap.org/tuleap-versus-jira-software/

(Disclaimer: I'm from the dev team)

[1] https://www.tuleap.org/ [2] https://www.tuleap.org/features/issue-tracking

Mattermost https://mattermost.com for instance messaging (way superior to slack, esp. for thread management).

[1] https://blog.tuleap.org/github-alternative-tuleap-open-sourc...

Most PM tools are designed to have a somehow central enforcement of the process and workflow with some central admins that have ways to change that (permissions, fields, workflows & all). This cannot be anything but a failure if the central admin doesn't say NO to 99% of modification requests because there will always be this influential project manager that will come to "add this little field I need to track this stuff for $IMPORTANT_CUSTOMER". So, by design, it will either be bloated (everyone get it's change so bug template is fat) or useless because the form will be so simple that everything will need to be managed with text content in comments.

That's why we (Tuleap team) propose an alternative: - You want a simple -github like- issue tracker because you are 3 in your team and just a title and a description, please go ahead. - You want a full blown, CMMI Level 5, Spice 3, what not issue, requirement, risk tracker, please let the craziest process guy do.

What's the difference with Jira (and others) ?

Each "tracker" (issue definition) is local to one project (of course you can template for re-use) and 100% owned by the project. You are not limited to 3 or 4 central templates that nobody can modify, you own them.

Let say the "simple" team is mad of tracking which component of the application an issue is raised on or how much effort was need to complete the issue, in 30 seconds the template is modified and usable without impacting anyone else.

See https://www.tuleap.org/how-easy-it-customize-my-project-trac...

[1] https://www.tuleap.org/features

Disclaimer: developer speaking.

[1] https://tuleap.org

If it really means "Microsoft Project without paying license", maybe GanttProject[1] is what you need.

If you want something that helps you and your team to manage your project from requirements to delivery and maintenance, you can have a look at Tuleap[2] (I'm part of dev team).

You can do the project management still of your own (waterfall, scrum, kanban, hybrid). If you are doing software development, it comes with git, gerrit, subversion native. It's a full featured ALM so it provides everything you need (documentation management, wiki, forums, IM, test mgmt, ...) without having to maintain N stack of incompatible tools with incompatible plugins & all.

[1] http://www.ganttproject.biz/ [2] https://tuleap.org

For the tracking part, everything is configurable trough the web UI and per project (contrary to Jira). You don't depend on a site admin to customize your templates, as project owner you are 100% to create as many tracker as you need with the layout you want.

I would suggest to look at Tuleap Trackers[1]. The tracking system is flexible enough to allow you to define your own layout for requirements and define a set of elements to help you categorize them.

I'm from the development team and we are using it for our very own requirement tracker (in an Agile way but that's not mandatory to follow an agile methodology to use it). You can have a look at some of your requirements / user stories:

* https://tuleap.net/plugins/tracker/?aid=7923 you can see how to structure the text and at the bottom the discussion and the modifications done by each user. * https://tuleap.net/plugins/tracker/?aid=8262 same with another topic.

[1] https://www.tuleap.org/about-tuleap/features/tracking

I don't buy the money argument. If you have the chance to be a successful enough open source project, you will find hosting companies ready to help you with free VMs.

If you are not that successful, you can use github & co without fear, nobody will try to insert crapware in your packages. And if you want to selfhost, even a raspberry pi will have enough power to serve your site.

The costs are directly proportional to the traffic but nowadays most "reasonable popular" open source projects can get hardware (VMs) from hosting companies for free.

[1] https://www.enalean.com/en/Open-source-community-host-yourse...

Pretty good at Scrum, Kanban is in progress (some features already there and a first delivery in June).

Net benefit: you get one tool for project management, source control and tracking (bug, todo, etc) in one central place with easy administration. Plus, it's fully open source!

Note: I'm part of the dev team.

[1] https://www.tuleap.org/about-tuleap/features

Regarding "Hosted service?": Tuleap is both on premises (regular Tuleap install [1]) and/or in SaaS with http://mytuleap.com

[1] http://tuleap-documentation.readthedocs.org/en/latest/instal...

Open Source full featured ALM, self-hosted or SaaS[2] consistent & easy to go upgrades.

(Disclosure: I'm part of the dev team)

[1] https://tuleap.org [2] http://mytuleap.com