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Hi,
out of interest, which specific features or workflows are missing and
make the existing instances of Bugzilla / Mingle / Trello insufficient,
and are your usecases described in public somewhere? Do the evaluation
criteria in
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tracker/PM_tool still apply,
or could that page be updated?
How to make sure that Flow feedback from users ends up in the correct
place? Thinking of Flow reports potentially filed in Bugzilla, is there
anything to move from or sync tickets between Bugzilla with Redmine?
andre
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [EE] Mingle for Flow
To: Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: WMF Editor Engagement List <ee(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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:
>
> 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
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