[opensourcedex]

Taiga is a free, open source project & work management project written in Python and released under MPL-2.0. It has 850 GitHub stars, 309 forks and 92 open issues, and was last pushed 8 days ago. On this registry it ranks #49 of 62 tracked projects in Project & Work Management, and is listed as an open source replacement for 3 paid products, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available.

What is Taiga?

What it is

Taiga is an agile project management platform for cross-functional teams, and this repository holds the backend component of that platform — the server side of the application, written in Python. It sits in the open-source business software space, specifically the project and work management category, and is positioned as an open alternative to the paid products Jira, Linear, and Basecamp. The codebase is distributed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, and the project publishes extensive public documentation covering both the HTTP API and server installation.

The concrete problem it solves is ownership and control over the tool a team runs its delivery process on. Teams that adopt the paid products in this category rent access to a hosted service and accept its pricing, its roadmap, and its data handling. Taiga offers the same category of capability as software that a team can install on its own servers, with an API documented well enough that teams can build their own integrations against it rather than waiting on a vendor. The README directs anyone who needs the server on their own hardware to the installation guides, which is the intended path for that audience.

Key capabilities

  • Backend service for the Taiga agile project management platform, implemented in Python.
  • Documented API reference at docs.taiga.io for developing against the Taiga API.
  • Published installation guides for self-hosting Taiga on a server the operator controls.
  • Public community site at community.taiga.io for setup help, questions, and enhancement discussion.
  • Multiple bug reporting channels: Taiga project issues as the preferred route, GitHub issues, and email for bugs on tree.taiga.io.
  • Dedicated security email address for reporting security bugs.
  • Contribution guide covering patches, documentation, and UI enhancements, alongside an MPL 2.0 contribution policy.

Who uses it and how

  • Teams that want an open alternative to Jira, Linear, or Basecamp and are willing to run the backend themselves.
  • System administrators and operators who follow the installation documentation to stand Taiga up on their own servers.
  • Developers who build integrations and tooling against the published Taiga API reference.
  • Open-source contributors who submit patches, documentation, or UI changes under the project's contribution guide.
  • Community members who ask setup questions and report defects through the community site, issue
project readme (upstream, from github) — read inline

Taiga Backend

Managed with Taiga.io Tests Status Coverage Status

Documentation

Currently, we have authored three main documentation hubs:

  • API: Our API documentation and reference for developing from Taiga API.
  • Documentation: If you need to install Taiga on your own server, this is the place to find some guides.
  • Taiga Resources: This page is intended to be the support reference page for the users.

Bug reports

If you find a bug in Taiga you can always report it:

One of our fellow Taiga developers will search, find and hunt it as soon as possible.

Please, before reporting a bug, write down how can we reproduce it, your operating system, your browser and version, and if it's possible, a screenshot. Sometimes it takes less time to fix a bug if the developer knows how to find it.

Community

If you need help to setup Taiga, want to talk about some cool enhancemnt or you have some questions, please go to Taiga community.

If you want to be up to date about announcements of releases, important changes and so on, you can subscribe to our newsletter (you will find it by scrolling down at https://taiga.io) and follow @taigaio on Twitter.

Contribute to Taiga

There are many different ways to contribute to Taiga's platform, from patches, to documentation and UI enhancements, just find the one that best fits with your skills. Check out our detailed contribution guide

Code of Conduct

Help us keep the Taiga Community open and inclusive. Please read and follow our Code of Conduct.

License

Every code patch accepted in Taiga codebase is licensed under MPL 2.0. You must be careful to not include any code that can not be licensed under this license.

Please read carefully our license and ask us if you have any questions as well as the Contribution policy.

Frequently asked questions

Is Taiga free to use?

Taiga is open source under the MPL-2.0 licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does Taiga do?

Agile project management for cross-functional teams

What is Taiga written in?

Taiga is primarily written in Python. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-back, and it has 850 GitHub stars.

What is a good open source alternative to Basecamp?

Taiga is one of the open source options listed as an alternative to Basecamp, Jira, Linear. Compare licences, stars and activity side by side on the Taiga profile.