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@wikimedia.org> 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