Fortunately someone else at work already set up a redmine one (they did it by mistake, actually, long story; but at least we already know it works). So I’m taking a look at this (slash or OpenProject) in conjunction with kanboard first to see what sticks.

Took a look at this and might not end up using it for this, but might use it for a different non-work related project instead that’s far more focused on time and task management.

Looks good at a first glance and is among the first I’ll try.

Lol. I download a library or program to do a task because I would not be able to code it myself (to that kind of production level, at least). Of course I’m not gonna be able to audit it! You need twice the IQ to debug a software compared to the one needed to even write it in the first place.

What does “empathy in communication” have to do with a software project?

Not having read Stein’s work, I can only mostly guess it’s related to the emphasis on the “communication” part as it applis to effective communication of duties, milestones, failure modes and reactions in a project. Torvalds’s tirades for example were awesome and most of the time well-deserved for the idiot trying to accidentally the kernel, but are quite more of a bummer and a momentum-killer when looked at at a project-wide scope.

I’m all for empathy, don’t get me wrong, but ideally software projects are more focused on technical correctness than feels

(Not) sorry to say, that age has long sailed. Remote teambuilding, capitalism and AI have made it that we now need to actually care and be watchful why or how something is being made to work, on the technical sense. Just look at the situation with Mozilla or Signal (offering systems that can be described as free, but are being offered so in a rather adversarial manner).