Community-skeleton
UVdesk Open Source Community Helpdesk is a comprehensive ticketing support system designed for everyone, offering robust features to streamline customer support and collaboration.
Community-skeleton is an open-source help desk project on GitHub under the OSL-3.0 license (strong copyleft), with 20k stars. It is built with Php-src. Its last push was 26 days ago.
- Stars
- 20k
- License
- OSL-3.0
- Activity
- Active
- Latest release
- v1.1.8
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- UVdesk's open-source helpdesk: email ticketing, workflows, knowledge base and agent permissions on Symfony.
- Adopt it when
- You want a free PHP helpdesk and can live with a slower release pace.
- Watch out
- Releases are infrequent, community support is thin, and the vendor pushes its paid SaaS; star count overstates activity.
- Ready for
- Usable
- Runs as
- Self-hosted server and cloud service
- Built with
- PHP, Symfony and MySQL
- How established
- Established: started 8 years ago, latest release v1.1.8.
- What the license allows
- Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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