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   13 owls in a haunted mansion (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Aug-2026 19:53:30 JST 13 owls in a haunted mansion

   #DuckDuckFedi, please tell me about your favourite open source project management tools.

   I would be prepared to consider proprietary software if I can just buy a fucking license once and then run it on my own PC or server and never interact with the company again.

   Absolutely no cloud-based services run by third parties.

   Must-haves:

   • It needs to run on Linux (either locally or on a server I control)
   • Gantt charts
   • To-do listing of some kind - Kanbans are fine, but other approaches work too.

   It would also be nice to have the ability to assign tasks to multiple users. This can be by email or just within the program, but I need to be able to label tasks as assigned to different people.

   I do not need that to be a live self-hosted service, although I don't mind hosting one if I have to. (Is this something Odoo does or am I misremembering?)

   My main focus is production for publishing and gamedev, with teams of <10 people.

   However, I also want to be able to use it for standard business management stuff.

   #ProjectManagement #Business #GameDev #Publishing #FOSS #OpenSource

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     13 owls in a haunted mansion (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 13-Aug-2026 18:33:55 JST 13 owls in a haunted mansion

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     • rhempel

     @rhempel That's actually a really good question that's made me think about why my current image of the process is as it is.

     I think because what we do tends to have a lot of deadlines and milestones, but not TOO much interlocking stuff (as yet), I like the visual aid that Gantt charts provide.

     It's likely that, for example, a project management tool that somehow integrated with a calendar to show blocks of time that had to be occupied by each task (rather than simply due days) would also work - I'm not wedded to Gantt's system so much as having a visual illustration of this kind.

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     rhempel (rhempel@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 13-Aug-2026 18:33:56 JST rhempel

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     @HauntedOwlbear Can I ask why Gantt charts are a feature for your use case?

     I'm on the lookout for some kind of task management system that runs on Linux as well, for fairly large projects that run multiple years.

     In our use case, the gantt chart was outdated a week after it was created :-) Actually it was out of date by the time it was created ...