On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org 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'll reply in a bit more detail later, but just a quick note that most of the open source agile PM tools are pretty terrible, sadly. I've seen one that's potentially decent, Fulcrum, which is a Pivotal clone and may merit some investigation:
http://wholemeal.co.nz/projects/fulcrum.html -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation