On Mar 9, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Stefan Krecher wrote: > Hi, > > i suspect, that the popularity of Pharo (or Smalltalk in general) > could be increased by developing some "Killer-OpenSource-Tools". > By "Killer-OpenSource-Tools" i think of Tools, e.g. for supporting the > Software-Development-Process in general. Moose of course could become > such a tool. > But i think of some standard Tools like Bug-Tracking/ Project Management.
I agree > Let me explain by a short example. > In a lot of projects i needed to use Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/) > as a Ticketing system. Trac is a "simple" Python script to manage > Tasks/ Tickets, it is customizable and can be enhanced. But it is very > very ugly, configuration is very unhandy. We like to print tickets to > pin them to a whiteboard for use in daily scrum meetings. This and > additional reports are made by BIRT-Reports. Everything feels very > unstable but a lot of companies prefer Trac because of licensing > issues (e.g. Jira is better but commercial). > A simple and good looking Ticketing-System for use in an agile team > would be a good thing - it's a CRUD-Application with some Reporting > and maybe some eye candy. Why don't you start based on experience to build a tool and share with us. > Another idea could be a Tool for organizing activities regarding > Softwaretests, e.g. generation of Testspecifications/ -plans and > reports on test-runs. I used TestLink (http://www.teamst.org/) but it > is ugly and unhandy too ... > > Pier CMS could be a good solution for Intranets or Websites, but the > lack of Documentation keeps people from using it. > > Is anyone interested in creating some OpenSource-Projects for use in a > wider range? Those Tools should look "sexy" and should be easy to try > (OneClick) or to install as a Service. Yes we are lot of people interested in that. Just quite busy. > > regards, > Stefan >
