Not to be annoying, but... Jira is pretty much the industry standard for this kind of stuff, do you not fit in the requirements for the free open-source projects license?
I'm sure you've looked at all the available options anyway :) On 6 December 2013 13:24, Florian Effenberger <[email protected] > wrote: > Hello, > > today, I would like to invite you to evaluate Redmine, a project > management system. _PLEASE_ read the following sections _COMPLETELY_ before > proceeding, as they contain important details. > > This evaluation has started out of two reasons: > > (1) With the growing number of freelancers, we need to keep track of the > paid work done for TDF, and the status of tasks and todos. In other words, > we need some sort of project management system, which also the larger > community can benefit from. > > (2) The infrastructure team needs a ticketing system for handling their > tasks. We have one in place already, but it is not used frequently, and we > try to evaluate alternatives. > > Ideally, those two requirements can be made fit together in one tool. > > This also means that Redmine is _NOT_ meant as replacement for Bugzilla at > all - not now, not later. Bugzilla fulfills a rather different set of > requirements, focused on development, while we are looking for project > management and ticketing, so I don't see a way to combine all three > requirements in one tool. > > While Redmine also offers a file storage, wiki, calendaring and other > tools, they are _NOT_ part of the evaluation. Chances are we might use some > of these functions to remove the variety of tools in place, but it is not > the primary determining factor. For the wiki e.g. we cannot simply migrate > away from MediaWiki, as we would lose important functionality and plugins > that overweight the benefit of having everything in one place. > > One more important note: This is explicitly called _EVALUATION_, which > means _NO_ final decision has been made yet, _NO_ binding timeline exists, > and _NOBODY_ is claiming it is the perfect tool for all of our purposes. We > _EVALUATE_ and based on the results, we make a decision. > > Please do _NOT_ rely on Redmine being a productive instance. It may vanish > at _ANY_ time, with loss of _ALL_ data. Again, it is an _EVALUATION_, > nothing to fully count on. Feel free to put productive tickets into it, but > do not expect any stability or reliability. > > All those warnings being said (I deemed that necessary given recent > discussions on our tools), I hope I didn't scare you away. ;-) I'm more > than happy if as many of you as possible test the tool and give us feedback > what you like or dislike. > > To create yourself an account, please navigate to > > https://intranet.documentfoundation.org/redmine/ > > and wait for the e-mail where you have to click a confirmation link, just > like for the wiki, and then you are set up. You can then create tickets and > play with the tool. For those who would like to have a deeper look, there's > also a variety of Android apps available to use Redmine remotely. > > For discussions, please use the [email protected] mailing > list exclusively. Please also use this list if you want to have > projects/queues created and/or get assigned as possible bug recipient with > one of those. > > For concrete bugs and wishes you have, please add them directly to > http://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/infra so they don't get lost. > > One last thing I'd like to ask for: Please be sensible in your > requirements. While surely there are many wishlist items we can have a look > at, we clearly need to identify blocking issues. Raising expectations so > high that no tool can fulfill them will lead us no where, so again, be > sensible. :-) > > That being said, Redmine is a first step. We have some other tools on the > radar that might fit, so - happy to hear the results of everyone's > evaluation! > > Florian > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- *Andrew Cassidy BSc (Hons) MBCS SSCA* Managing Director *T <[email protected]> *03300 100 960 *F <[email protected]> *03300 100 961 *E <[email protected]> *[email protected] *W <[email protected]> *www.cassidywebservices.co.uk -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
