Matthew Connerton wrote:
Bernhard Ganslmeier thanks for the comments and summing up what I was looking for.
You're welcome. One thing I forgot to mention is that I think that the installed base of Redmine is much higher that it looks first. It's support for alternative version control systems (SVN,HG) and the fact that one can install it on premise are also advantages and therefore I think it's quite popular by so called dark matter developers who work on closed source projects. And they're many.
Well this is looking pretty evident and practically speaking the root of what I’m asking here. While redmine has survived this long, it doesn’t feel like it’s grown; and I’m specifically talking about the open source community perspective. Go to a Drupal or Wordpress forum and you get practical help and guidance. Go to the redmine forum and ask how to enable HTTPS and you get "You need to install Apache and configure it bro".
Maybe the average burned out Redmine sysadmin is not as cozy and welcoming as the relaxed, yoga stretched, matcha latte filled Drupal developer. Just a joke. ;-)
There are many nice folks on the Redmine forums who are willing to help and yes, I also think there's room for improvement of some parts of the documentation. Things are slowly getting better.
Oh by the way... Did you know Redmine is quite big in Japan? There's a Redmine conference twice a year which you can also look at on YouTube but you need some Japanese skills. Otherwise you're left with me just looking at the presentations. :-D