Re: Project Management Software
trac is used at the Vermont Department of Taxes. Our largest trac project has around 65 users, 2200 tickets, and 7100 commits; it runs fine along with several other trac projects and subversion repositories on a 2.4 GHz P4 with 1GB of RAM. It is very configurable yet easy to use out of the box. With mod_authnz_ldap we can authenticate users against our Active Directory domain. It works very well for documentation, bug tracking, and source browsing. However if you are looking for a full project management package out of the box, then trac will likely fall short. Things you would expect in a project management package (example: Gantt charts) are not present in trac. However, most project management functionality not present in trac has been implemented in plug-ins. See trac-hacks.org for a listing of trac plug-ins. -Tom -Original Message- From: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts [mailto:va...@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Josh Smith Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 1:32 PM To: VAGUE@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Project Management Software Has anyone here ever used dotproject, taskjugger, or trac? If so, what are your opinions on them? -Josh Smith
Re: Project Management Software
hi. On Jun 13, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Josh Smith wrote: Has anyone here ever used dotproject, taskjugger, or trac? If so, what are your opinions on them? These are... products that do very different things. Could you please offer a more precise question? IE: I want a Desktop App for building out a project plan (Microsoft Project, TaskJuggler, KProject, GNOME Planner, OpenWorkbench, OpenProj, OmniPlan) vs I want a web-app for Project management (DotProject, etc...) vs I want an integrated Project Management and Source Code Management web application. (Trac, Bugzilla, Redmine, Mantis, Scarab, GForge, SourceForge, Jira, Unfuddle, etc, etc, etc) vs I want a request tracker (RT). I have used a variety of these tools over the years. After developing some kind of knowledge in the space, I happened across a reasonable listing and comparison of Issue Tracking systems and Revision Control systems at Wikipedia. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue_tracking_systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software I used to always suggest that people use Trac because it is easy to set up, and integrates well with Subversion. However, there are a number of shortcomings of Trac which are supposed to be addressed in versions post 1.0. Indeed, no Trac installation is complete without http://trac-hacks.org/ a set of plugins. Nearly all of the plugins have been brought forward to support 0.11. The main problem with Trac, is that there is no cross-project view. So, if you're like me, and have 100's of short- term projects you're responsible for watching, Trac is a good way to lose your hair. Otherwise, I have used Trac as the backbone of a collaborative system for a small shop, and it worked quite well. It is better suited for smaller teams, with an open development context. I have happy memories of Bugzilla. I recently discovered Redmine (written in Ruby), which supports things like Gantt Charts, and cross-project views of as many projects as you like. Please see http://redmine.org/. I have recently installed Redmine on Debian/Lenny. It wasn't totally trivial, but some tutorials exist, and the community is very helpful. You will need to read the manual first. It also includes many collaborative features that you otherwise have to add on to Trac (and Hack), such as a Forum. Much of the documentation is Ruby-centric, so just be prepared to read up a little on the Ruby Way. If you like PHP over Ruby I'd suggest looking hard at Mantis. I hope that helps a little. have a day.yad jdpf
Re: Project Management Software
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 13:32 -0400, Josh Smith wrote: Has anyone here ever used dotproject, taskjugger, or trac? If so, what are your opinions on them? -Josh Smith I used dotproject quite extensively for a time, the time tracking features were cool. I was trying to use it more as a time tracking system than it was intended for however, so I ended up not using it anymore. Overall, I found it to be well written and functional. Never heard of taskjugger, and trac has a huge install base, but I didn't like it a bit. Rubin -- Rubin Bennett rbTechnologies, LLC 80 Carleton Boulevard East Montpelier, VT 05651 (802)223-4448 http://thatitguy.com Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. Voltaire, Essay on Tolerance French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 - 1778)
Re: Project Management Software
Josh Smith wrote: Has anyone here ever used dotproject, taskjugger, or trac? If so, what are your opinions on them? -Josh Smith I use Trac for software bug tracking, both for my own stuff and for a small group of engineers on a project. It was relatively simple to get up and running on an existing Apache server, and tied into the Subversion software repository on the server without a hitch. It's not as complete as some of the commercial packages I've used, but has a relatively simple interface that was easy to explain to the novices and tech support folks who had never used a similar system before. So, in that limited context, I've found it quite easy and useful. But I don't know how it would be in a more expanded usage for full project management. Frank Pagliughi
Re: Project Management Software
+1 for Trac. We use Trac for all of our web development projects. The integration with Subversion is very useful - commits can hook into tickets and you can see a diff with one click from the ticket. Our team is rather small (usually a max of 3 people on any given project) so I'm not sure how it would work with larger teams. The milestones feature works well if you're following an iterative development process. Thanks, Bradley On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Frank Pagliughifpagliu...@mindspring.com wrote: Josh Smith wrote: Has anyone here ever used dotproject, taskjugger, or trac? If so, what are your opinions on them? -Josh Smith I use Trac for software bug tracking, both for my own stuff and for a small group of engineers on a project. It was relatively simple to get up and running on an existing Apache server, and tied into the Subversion software repository on the server without a hitch. It's not as complete as some of the commercial packages I've used, but has a relatively simple interface that was easy to explain to the novices and tech support folks who had never used a similar system before. So, in that limited context, I've found it quite easy and useful. But I don't know how it would be in a more expanded usage for full project management. Frank Pagliughi -- http://bradley-holt.blogspot.com/
