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RedPlanetHQ/tegon
Tegon is an open-source, dev-first alternative to Jira, Linear
Tegon is a self-hostable issue tracker positioned as a Linear/Jira alternative, built for developer teams who want GitHub-native workflows and an automation layer baked in rather than bolted on. The Actions framework is the actual differentiator — it lets you wire up event-driven automations (issue creation, PR linking, Slack triggers) without leaving the tool.
The Actions architecture is well-thought-out: each integration (Slack, GitHub, Discord, WhatsApp) is a standalone package with its own trigger/handler split, so adding a new one doesn't touch core. Prisma migrations are present and squashed cleanly — schema history is actually maintained, not just a dump. The NestJS backend is modular enough that you can find what you need without reading everything. Self-hosting story is real: Docker images are published and the entrypoint script handles migrations.
Last push was March 2025 and the README still says 'alpha with breaking changes expected' — not a confidence-inspiring combination for something you'd run your team on. The monorepo uses separate pnpm lockfiles per action package rather than a workspace lockfile, which means dependency drift between actions is a real risk and CI is heavier than it needs to be. SuperTokens for auth adds a significant operational dependency that isn't mentioned prominently in the self-hosting docs — you're running three services minimum before you even open the app. No mention of data export or migration path away from Tegon, which matters when evaluating a tool you'll store years of project history in.