Redmine's a pain to install but pretty great once up. It has a very good
plugin model through which we can add anything we need. Rob Lanphier and I
discussed this a few times and came to the conclusion that Redmine +
helping upstream fixes to plugins like
http://www.redminebacklogs.net/ should
cover all our use cases. We even have a migration path from Bugzilla as we
can import all the historical data, even preserving bug numbers:
https://github.com/ralli/bz2redmine
So if anyone decides to tackle this beast, count me in. The test redmine
instance is back up (I think it goes down when the machine restarts - this
is just my configuration mistake surely)
http://redmine.instance-proxy.wmflabs.org/redmine
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Matthew Flaschen
<mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On 05/15/2013 06:36 PM, Terry Chay wrote:
I agree
these tools are problematic for this reason. I understand why
some people currently choose to use them, but the Foundation should
investigate free alternatives that can meet our projects' needs.
I don't want to vary from Mingle or Trello until it's proven for current
projects, but you and Mark Holmquist have some incentive to try out
alternative tools. We could probably start a labs instance and come up
with a project that is defunct or not under active development yet that
we can try out using a tool of your choosing. :-)
You guys have my okay to do that for something. :-)
Dan Andreescu and I (mostly him) actually setup (a while back) a Redmine
instance for this purpose (with the goal of prototyping a nice FOSS
solution). It seems to be currently down, but it's at
http://redmine.instance-proxy.wmflabs.org/redmine/login .
Matt Flaschen