My tenure with the Ægir Project only dates back about 7 or 8 years. I can’t speak first-hand about its inception and those early days. So, I’ll leave that to some of the previous core team members, many of whom are publishing blog posts of their own.
I've been mentoring students as part of Drupal's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program for the last two years, where we guide students in working on Drupal projects over the summer.
Services like LastPass are extremely popular for automatically entering credentials (username and password combinations) for logging into Web sites. They also generate passwords as needed and store them. They're not without their problems, however.
The two major issue with these types of services are the following:
While there are many articles on the Web comparing the two version control systems (VCSes)Subversion (SVN) and Git (i.e. SVN vs. Git), many of them are overly technical. This one, however, attempts to provide a higher-level business case for making the switch.
For a time, the best FLOSSissue tracking system around was Redmine. Then, a couple of years ago, Redmine was forked by some of its core developers to create Chiliproject. They felt that they weren't able to get new features committed in a timely manner and that the existing system wasn't sufficiently open for product growth.