On 2012-03-06, at 1:17 AM, Bruce N wrote: > I am looking for an open-source project management package that allows for > employee / employer interaction and that provides for version control like > GIT. Allow employees to report their end of day completed tasks and > allows employees to see the new version of code and amount of work done > without too much searching.
I'm using Redmine (http://www.redmine.org); It has a pretty extensive plugin architecture. I've installed the Redmine Backlogs plugin which takes care of a lot of the Agile stuff, and then I've added Rate, Timesheet and Budget plugins to try to take care of estimating and time tracking. Redmine also had a few choices from an iOS device application standpoint which was another requirement for me. I chose Redmine over JIRA or Trac because it handles multiple projects without hacks, seems a lot lighter than the others, lets me use my existing PostgreSQL database and also included things like an exportable wiki. It's a Ruby on Rails application which is probably just as heavy as the Java backend that JIRA requires, but I felt more comfortable hacking Ruby than Java. (I haven't hacked on it all, though.) > There are many that pop-up on Google, but I am looking for a simple one > that can be up running within hours. Nothing complicated. There's a really interesting company called BitNami which provides "all in one" stacks for several large installations. I think their goal is to encourage you to run your stack on their cloud, but they provide the stacks for testing for free. I grabbed the Redmine one to test it out, and once I was convinced that it was what I wanted I installed Redmine the usual way, pointed it at my existing database and was off to the races. They have Mantis, Redmine and Trac stacks you can download and check out under their "Bug Tracking" category. I strongly suggest poking around on their site: http://bitnami.org/stacks -A. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
