[dasmoth]

I think an aspect of the problem is that most tools in this space actually get sold to project managers (and secondarily, process-oriented senior engineers), not hackers who just want to shut the door, quit Slack, and build stuff.

I think it's interesting to consider what hacker-oriented tools might look like. GitHub close to launch might qualify: simple interface, a model where (at least conceptually) projects are owned by individuals not organisations, and a simple but pretty pleasant-to-use issue tracker with no "workflow" type mechanisms. A lot of this has changed now (support for mandating code reviews!) and from a revenue point of view I'm not sure they're wrong to do these things. But it was the simple, hacker-friendly version that got them their initial mindshare.

I'm not entirely sure what the GitHub 1.0 of CI would look like, but probably not like the current offerings.