[hinkley]

Disclosure: I used to work for a competitor. Some of my coworkers were afraid of Atlassian and it rubbed off on me.

Later when I used their stuff and could be (more) objective, I was sort of confused by that previous experience. They're... okay. If that was intimidating maybe that said more about us than about them.

I am probably experiencing a little backlash when I react to their shenanigans because they are not 'all that'. At all.

Trac (no affiliation) is ugly but like your favorite hammer. It is probably the least painful project management suite I ever recall using. And I used it before they decoupled their parsing and rendering logic, so writing plugins that involved anchor tags was a warren of duplicated code.

My last musing-while-brushing-my-teeth was to wonder what would happen if someone drop-kicked the Trac CSS files and wrote a new one from scratch using modern conventions.