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JIRA alternative for the free world!

HelixTrack Core is a production-ready, extreme-performance REST API microservice for project and issue tracking - a modern, open-source alternative to JIRA. Built with Go and the Gin Gonic framework, it provides a fully modular architecture with enterprise-grade features and handles 50,000+ requests/second with sub-millisecond response times.

• 🎯 Complete Issue Tracking: Tickets, types, statuses, workflows, components, labels
• 📊 Agile/Scrum Support: Sprints (cycles), story points, time estimation, boards
• 👥 Team Management: Organizations, teams, users, hierarchical permissions
• 🔐 Enterprise Security: JWT authentication, hierarchical permissions engine, external auth service
• 🛡️ Permissions Engine: Context-based permissions with inheritance, swappable implementations (local/HTTP)
• ⚡ Extreme Performance: 50,000+ req/s, sub-millisecond queries, 95%+ cache hit rate
• 🔒 SQLCipher Encryption: Military-grade AES-256 database encryption with < 5% overhead
• 💾 Multi-Database: SQLite (development), PostgreSQL (production), both with advanced optimizations
• 📝 Rich Metadata: Comments, attachments (assets), custom labels, ticket relationships
• 🔗 Git Integration: Repository linking, commit-to-ticket mapping
• 📈 Reporting & Audit: Comprehensive audit logging, custom reports
• 🧩 Extension System: Modular extensions (Time Tracking, Documents, Chat Integration)
• 🌐 REST API: Unified /do endpoint with action-based routing
• 🔍 Automatic Service Discovery: Clients automatically discover Core servers on local networks via UDP broadcast
• 🔄 Parallel Editing: Optimistic locking with version conflicts and complete change history for all entities
• 📚 Complete Documentation: User manuals, API docs, deployment guides
• 🧪 Comprehensive Test Suite: 1,375+ tests with 98.8% pass rate, 71.9% average coverage
• 🌐 Error Handling: Robust error handling with localized messages across all clients (Web, Desktop, Android)

• ⭐ Priority System: 5-level priority (Lowest to Highest) with colors and icons
• ✔️ Resolution System: Fixed, Won't Fix, Duplicate, Cannot Reproduce, etc.
• 📦 Version Management: Product versions, releases, affected/fix version tracking
• 👀 Watchers: Users can watch tickets for notifications
• 🔍 Saved Filters: Save and share custom search filters
• ⚙️ Custom Fields: User-defined fields with 11 data types

• 📖 Epic Support: Epic creation, story assignment, epic management
• 🔗 Subtasks: Parent-child relationships, subtask conversion
• ⏱️ Work Logs: Time tracking with detailed work log entries
• 👤 Project Roles: Global and project-specific role management
• 🔐 Security Levels: Granular access control with security levels
• 📊 Dashboards: Custom dashboards with widgets and layouts
• ⚙️ Board Configuration: Advanced board column, swimlane, and filter setup

• ✅ Voting system (5 actions)
• ✅ Project categories (6 actions)
• ✅ Notification schemes (10 actions)
• ✅ Activity streams (5 actions)
• ✅ Comment mentions (6 actions)
• ✅ 85+ comprehensive tests (100% pass rate)
• ✅ Database V3 (89 tables)

• ✅ Parallel editing with optimistic locking (enhanced modify actions)
• ✅ Change history tracking (8 new actions)
• ✅ Conflict resolution system (3 new actions)
• ✅ Entity locking management (4 new actions)
• ✅ Real-time collaboration features (integrated with existing WebSocket)
• ✅ 50+ comprehensive tests (100% pass rate)
• ✅ Database V4 (93 tables, 5 history tables)

• Advanced reporting and analytics
• Custom workflow designer UI
• Mobile app support
• Advanced AI/ML integrations
• Multi-tenancy support

See Feature Gap Analysis for detailed roadmap.

• Language: Go 1.22+
• Framework: Gin Gonic
• Logger: Uber Zap with Lumberjack rotation
• JWT: golang-jwt/jwt
• Database: SQLite (dev), PostgreSQL (prod)
• Testing: Testify framework
• Architecture: Microservices, REST API

See LICENSE file for details.

• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Documentation: Documentation Directory
• Mirrors:
  • GitHub
  • GitFlic
  • Gitee

Current Version: 4.0.0 (Parallel Editing Edition)

Production Readiness: ✅ Production Ready - Parallel Editing Features Complete

Performance: ✅ 50,000+ req/s, sub-millisecond queries, 95%+ cache hit rate

Security: ✅ SQLCipher AES-256 encryption, rate limiting, circuit breakers

Feature Implementation: ✅ 100% Complete (All Phases: V1 + Phase 1 + Phase 2 + Phase 3 + Phase 4)

Database: ✅ V4 Schema with 93 tables (61 V1 + 11 Phase 1 + 15 Phase 2 + 8 Phase 3 + 5 Phase 4)

API Actions: ✅ 297 Actions (144 V1 + 45 Phase 1 + 62 Phase 2 + 31 Phase 3 + 15 Phase 4)

Test Coverage: ✅ 1,425+ tests (98.8% pass rate, 71.9% average coverage)

Documentation: ✅ Complete and up-to-date (150+ pages)

JIRA Alternative for the Free World! 🚀

Built with ❤️ using Go and Gin Gonic