aleteoryx | Goodnight, Sweet Prince...

I've killed my redmine. Not for any fault of its own, and I feel bad for the little Rocky Linux install that could, but I don't have a reason to keep it up now. Everything worth saving has made its way to my archive.

There are a few reasons for my doing this.

Git integration won't work!

This is more an incompatibility between soft-serve and Redmine, but a problem nontheless. Redmine just can't read the Git directories stored by soft-serve. I don't know if it's a perms error or what, but part of my reason for picking it in the first place was good Git integration, it's not much different to any other ticket system.

Questionable things on the official instance.

One of the main devs, on their official install, has the username of something something <the N word> something something. Maybe they're black, but I strongly doubt it. If memory serves there was no such indication.

Concerning.

Clunky

The main point in me having it was as an issue tracker. There are so many buttons on the page for a single issue, and I honestly cannot tell which does which. The "reply" and "edit" buttons open an identical interface. etc. It feels like Discourse, where the app thinks it knows more than you, and decides to hide shit from you.

Those are really the main ones.

...and that I was renting an extra VPS to handle the Rails install needed for it. Oh, yeah, it's a fucking Rails app. Because ofc. Also my themes broke after an update? So part of the fun of it being really really cute was just taken from me ig. Upsetting. (Going to have to make amehut even cuter to recover!!!)

I think Redmine is great for people other than me. The lighttpd folks seem to get on fine with it, it just doesn't work for my flow. Thankfully, it has been wholly obsoleted by amehut, and I took the time to copy over the old issues to the new scrobble.observer issue tracker. The VPS is being shut down, and the domain links to this article. All is well in the world.

Toodles!