Maintainers of an open source project are often volunteers in different time zones. Triage and release planning need a place that is not the public issue tracker, and the project needs to be able to take its history with it if it ever moves.

How open source project teams set up Tandem App

  1. Create #maintainers, #triage and #releases, and connect GitHub so new issues and pull requests post into #triage.
  2. Plan each release on the task board with a checklist and assign tasks across maintainers.
  3. Use scheduled messages to post updates at a sensible time for maintainers in other time zones.
  4. Run a full data export (a zip of JSON plus files) periodically so the project keeps its own copy.

Clients and outside people

Regular contributors who are not maintainers can join #triage as Chat only guests.

What it costs

Tandem App is free for up to 3 users. Paid plans are charged per user (owners, admins and members) from $1.99 a month, and guests are free: 5 for every paid user. Every feature is on every plan. See pricing.