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Show HN: Lavagna, an open-source issue/project management tool

by syjer on 8/9/15, 3:04 PM with 25 comments

  • by BjoernKW on 8/12/15, 7:31 AM

    Contrary to most of the others on this thread I appreciate you're using Java for this. Using Java means drawing upon a very robust foundation. This very much looks like a tool for business rather than personal use.

    I can't imagine why a company wouldn't get a proper yet slightly more expensive server with an adequate amount of RAM instead of a vhost that only allows to run PHP, especially as the software itself comes for free and most companies such a tool would be useful for likely already have some sort of dedicated server - either on-prem or hosted - anyway.

    Besides, Java often is the only option for deploying tools in larger companies.

    I have one question, though: What's your business model with Lavagna? From what I've seen at a cursory glimpse there doesn't seem to be dual-licensing or anything similar (which on the other hand probably wouldn't make sense for a project management tool anyway).

  • by sigmaml on 8/10/15, 6:14 AM

    Can those who 'lost' the post at Java describe what makes it 'lose' them? Curious.

    Also, is the implication that the merit of the tool is decided based on your personal liking/disliking for the language it is implemented in? That seems childish! If you are responsible for any decent business, dangerous!

  • by avitzurel on 8/11/15, 8:35 PM

    I have a few comments on this one

    1. It looks awesome in terms of UI 2. The webpage looks great and explains everything I wanted to know.

    But when I looked at the source code and saw Java I was deeply disappointed.

    I use Java a lot, MapReduce, Pig, Storm topologies, I love java but I would never use it on a server.

    With every open source project adoption is super important, having Java on the server is a big ask when you want someone to try your project out.

    One thing that will help a lot here is if you have a Dockerfile on your repo, this way people can build and deploy it easily. I'd even go as far as creation a chef recipe for it. Those can seem out of scope, but can help a lot.

    Anyway, this seems like a solid piece of open source. Awesome

  • by reeboblue on 8/12/15, 7:40 PM

    Tried running on my Ubuntu 14.04 server and got the errors below (I have MySQL 5.5, java version 1.7.0_75 and have installed libmysql-java)...

    ./lavagna.sh: line 54: -Ddatasource.dialect=MYSQL: command not found ./lavagna.sh: line 55: -Ddatasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/lavagna: No such file or directory ./lavagna.sh: line 61: -Ddatasource.username=lavagnauser: command not found

  • by anonbanker on 8/10/15, 1:16 AM

    like everyone else commenting, I despise java. However, I'm already using Trello, and this looks like a near full-replacement, so I'll suck up the extra ram usage and give it a try. thanks!

  • by kkirsche on 8/9/15, 11:52 PM

    Looks cool and interesting. But it's Java so I won't be using it. While it may the right tool it's not something I can easily deploy with low to no overhead.

  • by xfalcox on 8/12/15, 10:20 PM

    This looks very good. I have been using OpenProject but my users doesn't like it so far.

    Is i18n on the roadmap?

  • by zz1 on 8/12/15, 8:29 AM

    Login with Persona: great, really appreciated!

  • by nahtnam on 8/9/15, 8:14 PM

    Tbh you lost me at java as well...

  • by stephenr on 8/9/15, 3:52 PM

    You lost me at Java