Tangential: What are popular options for self-hosting project management tools these days? There used to be Trac or Redmine but people seemed to move on and have settle on hosting solutions (which makes sense). But there must be some self-hosting alternatives. Maybe GitLab? Any tips are welcome.
I used trac in its most basic way (just tickets with comments) for the first time in a long time for a project last year, because a vendor asked to use it. It was really nice especially when it was required to look back a discussion or decision. I don't mind any of these tools, even JIRA if it's not been setup to micromanage, but even then it's not been my experience that you can look back at something from last year and get good information. Yes, it's immutable but as people come and go it's very hard to have the configuration of projects, workflows, etc be consistent enough over time to trust you're looking at the primary source of information.
Self-hosted Gitlab is pretty nice and is a (the?) current de facto standard. I've not used any of the CI features but the wiki, git handling, and issue handling/kanban boards feel like a nice sweet spot of functionality vs simplicity. I have also not used the features related to epics/gantt charts, etc but I personally think a good project manager makes these separately instead of trying to automate reporting based on tickets.