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I am using Redmine and as a free software it is more than good.
But I'm facing some problems now and I'm looking for some system to replace Redmine.
Main disadvantages from my point of view are:
hard installation - My version is 1.3.1 (installation process was pain in the #$$), now when I want to upgrade to 2.. I can see in the site that this will be pain too
not so stable - (using stand-alone nginx server) there are some problems like sometimes cannot upload files until restart passenger, stopped working two times (passenger process missing for some reason) etc
my last attempt to set-up a plugin was unsuccessful
I'm not Ruby developer and it's hard to maintain the Redmine - I'm pretty not sure what are the security issues, how to use Redmine with already installed SSL on one of the domains (port 80) etc
So I'm looking for a new system (preferred /but not mandatory/ option to be NOT SaaS) with these features:
Required:
Project management
Bug Tracking
Possibility to generate Invoices (as a plugin is cool too)
User friendly interface
Good to have:
openID login
not necessarily free (but for a reasonable price)
if it's not SaaS - to be PHP based, not Ruby, Python, Java etc
I have some experience with Assembla, Pivotal, Yodiz and Mantis.
Yodiz interface is too complex and not clean for me.
Mantis is like from the past (looks like the first tracker ever)
Pivotal is not so bad, but I think is best for issues tracking only (not project management, invoices etc)
Assembla.. very little experience, only for SVN
I know there are lots of discussions, the problem is that many people liked Redmine for some reasons that are totally opposite of my opinion.
I'm spending some time last 2 days to review most popular trackers, but with no success so far.
I'll try "Trac" now, but will be glad if someone share it's experience with this popular Trac problem - multiple projects. :)
Thanks!
I would suggest to take a look at assembla. It is not for SVN only - you can use git / svn / mercurial tools or even add external github tool.
Project management for assembla recently got much better (with implementation of Planner and Cardwall) and new improvements are planned.
If you track your hours in commit messages or web interface, it is very easy to export the working hours (to generate an invoice)
After some research I found needed software.
FengOffice seems to fit my requirements very well.
community version (free)
self hosted (2 minutes installation)
written on PHP
very good UI - I like the way it's organized, AJAX UI is very good implemented in this case
cool features
.. etc
I don't have more detailed impressions, but it looks really promising.
The current Trac version (1.0) does not natively provide multi-project support, although there is some discussion about that topic in the Trac wiki. But since Trac 0.12 there is a plugin SimpleMultiProjectPlugin that extends Trac with the feature 'multiple projects in one installed Trac instance'.
A good description of what that Trac plugin SimpleMultiProjectPlugin exactly provides can be read here or on the plugin wiki page (see link above).
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There are so many tools out there. You can do so much things around developing that it is a full time job on its own. So why not integrating features / tools to an powerful server application.
Is there a server which integrates (some of) these features:
static code analysis
automated builds (e.g. through maven)
continuious integreation
automated tests
project website (source code, team collaboration, documentation, java doc)
bug tracking
version control (e.g. through SVN)
statistics
download section
code coverage
any other metrics and quality supporting features
I am sure there are more useful features which do not come to my mind right now. There are tools out there supporting one or the other feature.
Is there any software that supports some more of those features? It would be perfect if that software would be free, but at least it should be non commercial. I am mostly using Java.
Thanks in advance.
What you need is a setup for Hudson, Maven, Nexus Repository Manager and a Bug Tracking Tool like Redmine. The Redmine can be started with a Bitnami Stack which includes Subversion.
The code analysis can be done by using cobertura, findbugs etc. with Maven (using Plugins). If you need more metrics take a look at sonar with support of a Maven Plugin.
The Web-Site etc. can be done by using Maven (site generation).
Sounds like you want Cruise Control or Hudson. Both can do most of the items on your laundry list.
I like Launchpad...
Launchpad is a software collaboration platform that provides:
Bug tracking
Code hosting using Bazaar Code reviews
Ubuntu package building
Hosting Translations
Mailing lists
Answer tracking and FAQs
Specification tracking
Take the tour!
The key is the package building. You should check it out.
If your requirement is "[Ff]ree" I'd suggest Hudson. It's quite modern and has a ton of plugins that can take care of the requirements you've asked for. Hudson is very actively maintained and the plugins receive lots of attention too.
Homepage here: http://hudson-ci.org/
List of plugins here: http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Plugins
IRC Channel (great resource for help): irc://chat.freenode.net/#hudson
Hudson literally takes minutes to setup and bootstrap as well, in simple cases.
You can get exactly everything you need in one package, and free, in fazend.com. The platform integrates SVN, Trac, CruiseControl, Maven, etc. You start a project with one click.
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PMS = (Project Management Software)
I used trac for software development some time ago. Right now I'm searching for a new more powerful (scheduling, gantt charts, ...) free solution (as in free beer ;-) and free to install on my server) for my current software project.
Besides the current software project, abstract project management features like issue-tracking & scheduling would be great for coordinating a group of volunteers for real-life projects as well. I would want one solution for both purposes, so that I have the hassle of installation, getting used to the system and administration only once.
So I tried redmine but the problem is it seems to be designed for software projects only. I can't suggest such a solution for the volunteer-group if tickets/issues would have to be of type bug, feature, ...
I shortlisted the following six PMS from the wikipedia comparison:
Project.net
Project-Open
Redmine
Trac
Endeavour Software Project Management
eGroupWare
I guess they are all more or less fine for software development but would you consider any of these to be good for the non-software project as well?
Cliff Notes:
I would want a start page situation like in trac.
The start-page is a wiki presenting the project and not the PMS. But you can log into the PMS from there.
Feature-wish list: wiki, Issue tracking, revision control, scheduling & gantt charts, forums (least important)
(Btw: I'm very aware that I can't expect everything to be perfect ;-)
Do you know a suitable solution for software and real-life projects or a highly customizable PMS where I can easily remove sth. like "browse source"(trac) and rename things like ticket/issue-types "bug", "feature"?
Any experience good/bad with the above mentioned six PMS?
I would personally guess that "Redmine" and "Endeavour Software Project Management" are too focused on software projects.
Take a look at project kaiser (http://www.projectkaiser.com). It's a web-based project management and issue tracking software, with Gantt, wikis and forums included. Successfully used in both software and non-software projects.
You might want to try setting up different "trackers" and workflows in Redmine. You should be able to name these different processes in non-software language. If you're willing to edit a little code, you can also change the labels on a lot of things pretty easily. E.g., Version becomes Milestone.
Take a look at the IT derivative of our project management portal product (free open source version is available) http://yoxel.com/project-management-portal.html
For non-software projects I think email could work pretty well, and here is a new product we're working on that makes the email collaboration experience more suitable for project management: yoxel.com/personal-commitment-manager.html
I'm a core contributor to web2project and most of our users are not software people at all. In fact, it appears that law firms and contractors (as in the building construction type) are nearly 80% of our installed based on surveys.
In our case, everything revolves around the concept of a Project - tasks, files, forums, helpdesk tickets, even risks - and is treated that way.
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I tired my hands on bazaar(launchpad), for the reason that i can host my project at launchpad, and bazaar (my local machine) would be tightly integrated with launchpad. I have posted my question at launchpad forum, and have not got any answer. Anyways...
So i was thinking about shifting it from there to some other site. I dont know why, but couple of friends said sourceforge has not remain that good, but i still see too many project linking to sourceforge.
PS recommendation. Is there a place where you guys upload your personal projects, and also SVN I think is the most popular, but with git/bazaar, I dont know if it just a hype or distributed version controlling is really the way to go.
I'm very happy with Assembla for my personal stuff. They offer all kinds of version control and project management tools (SVN, Git, Trac, etc). It's free for public projects (though there is a storage limit for these) and they offer rather affordable private plans (which I like a lot for managing my personal stuff with tickets, wiki etc).
I have many personal projects at Google Code. It's easy to use, and lets other people find and use my code.
For minor personal projects (mostly projects I show off on my web site), I actually use Dropbox. It's got what I need for my own needs:
I can work on my code on several machines (it syncs files across machines.)
I can access my files through the web (it has a web interface.)
If I need to go back to an old version of a file, or restore a deleted file, I can do that through the web interface (it stores a revision every time the file is modified, and it's easy to see a list of versions and download them or choose to replace the current version.)
It's also got support for making part of the structure public, so that others can download the latest version of the code. You can even share the folder so that others with Dropbox can modify the files.
Check it out!
Well, there's 2 problems here. 1) What to use for SCM, and 2) Where to host your project. I'd settle on a SCM system first, then choose a host that you like which supports your provided system. As for personal preference, I like SVN, and have been hosting projects at google code lately. Google code is kind of new, and not super feature-rich, but isn't too bad as far as hosts go.
Mercurial (and Git I believe) has a built-in web interface that easily links to your repository and allows you to host the code yourself. It provides a customizable web interface for code browsing, and allows other to clone a repo from your site instead of from SFEE. Additionally, you can set up password protection to allow a certain set of users to check into each repository.
Check out this link to see how to host repositories using Apache, and this link for Mercurial info in general.
http://bzr.bz (my project) does private bzr + trac hosting
its not free but its cheap
perfect for personal projects etc.. that are not open source
I can't believe nobody as mentioned Github yet! Github offers free git hosting for open source projects, and paid hosting otherwise.
Beanstalk offers free SVN hosting, but with a Diskspace limit of 100MB and only 3 users. You can pay to have it upgraded.
Both of these are good choices (Depending on whether or not you like Git/SVN of course), and are obviously globally accessible via the internet.
It might be a late answer by now, but personally I recommend http://repositoryhosting.com/
They offer SVN/GIT/HG hosting with Trac support, WebDAV, unlimited projects/unlimited users for 6$ a month.
I've tried other providers (assembla, github and even tried to put it on my own server), but this deal beats all competitors. I was even able to put it on my own subdomain.
Their interface is a bit minimalistic, but it does the job very well.
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I was asked to manage and develop a project. The client does not really care if I hire people who would do it or I do it myself. Thus, I've decided to be more manager than developer.
Are there any (free / low cost) web projects that could help me to communicate with each "sub-developer" outta there on Internet?
What I expect is to have similar project as basecamp, however sub-developers wouldn't know about each other because I would be communicator between them. It's possible that basecamp includes this kind of service, but I am not going to pay to every possible similar service to know this.
If you have some real-life experience with this kind of problem I'm about to encounter, please, write it here.
Thank you
As many open source projects found, trac is a good fit - lightweight project management with integrated subversion interface:
Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team's established development process and policies.
It provides an interface to Subversion, an integrated Wiki and convenient reporting facilities.
Trac allows wiki markup in issue descriptions and commit messages, creating links and seamless references between bugs, tasks, changesets, files and wiki pages. A timeline shows all current and past project events in order, making the acquisition of an overview of the project and tracking progress very easy. The roadmap shows the road ahead, listing the upcoming milestones.
Both trac and subversion can be used from anywhere on the Web, using one of the free or low cost providers (for some references, see TracUsers).
I'd set up sharepoint if i were you. It's perfect for handling projects and talking to members. Also set up a couple of mailing-lists where you all can easily communicate.
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I would suggest looking at Assembla, it has issue tracking, version control and Trac support all in it - and it's free.
It is possible that you can do this with the free version of AceProject.
There are quite a lot of software available to manage projects easily, here I'd suggest you to check out ProofHub - https://www.proofhub.com (heads up - I work there). It allows you to capture both the full picture and a detailed snapshot of your plans and progress. The Gantt charts and task management feature provide clear picture for you to understand what is being worked on and what needs to be done. You can track task dependencies on your Gantt chart to see the progress of your projects. Here's how it looks:
ProofHub Overview
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I've recently begun evaluating a few project management projects for the company I work for. It's the classic case - growing company looking for the right solution (meaning, free or really cheap). It's a combination shop - Windows, Macs, and Linux on the desktop. The tech savviness, of course, ranges from newbie to unix guru.
I have yet to find anything really close to a total solution. I don't expect to find one, but I am looking for suggestions/guidance/any sort of feedback based on people's experience.
What I'm looking for:
web based
methodology independent (not looking for an agile solution, etc.)
free or really cheap
document management
timelines and milestones
task tracking and assigning
reporting
source control
development wiki
I've looked at Trac, Projectivity, Basecamp, JIRA, RT, XPlanner, and SharedPlan. I've stayed away from Bugzilla due to previous unhappy experiences with it. None of these things really does everything - some are extendable, but I'd check here before going down that path.
Thanks,
Read through Edward Tufte's long-running Ask E.T. topic Project Management Graphics (or Gantt Charts). There is no consensus answer, but a lot of things have been evaluated.
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Trac - integration of tickets / wiki / commit-comments is great.
Caveat: installation can be PITA...
Check out Jira Studio. All of Atlassian's apps, hosted for you.
http://www.jira.com/
You get wiki/tracker/svn browser and more.
Have a look at Redmine, it's a Rails app. Haven't used it yet myself, but thinking about moving to it from activecollab. This applications seems to be evolved quite fast last year.
My experience of Jira (with Confluence for the wiki) has been rather good, although it is quite pricey the support people were very responsive and helpful. The place where I used that had svn for version control, and the two played together OK. On the other hand I found Xplanner to be a very odd app - really inflexible if you don't want to be doing XP, and surprisingly documentation-centric for an XP shop.
If you don't mind doing a bit of configuration yourself and have a windows server somewhere in your shop then you could set up your very own customized project management system in SharePoint.
* web based
* methodology independent
* free or really cheap
* document management
* timelines and milestones
* task tracking and assigning
* reporting
* source control
* development wiki
The source control system is not a part of SharePoint so it is really a question whether that requirement is paramount or not. But besides that you will have all of the above for free if you install WSS (comes free with a 2003/2008 server)
There is even a book from O'Reilly about how to set up a PMIS in SharePoint
One solution for the more visual of us would be to use Drupal 6x. with the Project and Subversion (now Version Control) modules. I prefer Joomla with ProjectFork, but until its modded with a repo browser, this will have to do.
Hope this helps.
http://drupal.org/project/project
I looked hard at Alfresco and Joomla.
None met my needs because I wanted the ultimate in simplicity. But, you seem to prefer having the kitchen sink included (while keeping it easy to use, I guess), so either one of these might be right for you.
Currently, I'm throwing together my own using Django, keeping only the project-deadline, forum and file-versioning concepts.