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.orgwrote:
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