Stephen Eley wrote: > > Thanks, James. But at the moment I have no need for that level of > overhead. Gantt charts are an anti-feature for me. I'm effective > enough with my index cards and thumbtacks. >8-> >
I am sorry that I did not make myself clearer. Redmine is far more than a project management tool. It is in fact a rather sophisticated, if limited, content management tool that supports PostgreSQL as its back end. I was suggesting it as a potential candidate for your proposed service to your end users. Redmine handles multiple projects and and allows multiple project specific roles for an individual (for example, a single user may be manager of one whilst only a member of another). You wrote of having contributors post material and then maintain it. Well, a contributor could be given their own "project". This at a stroke, provides them with a project wiki, public and private user forums, a file repository and a notice board. There is no need to have or to use issue tickets, work flows, milestones or gantt charts at all. On the other hand, some collaborative efforts, or even a major monograph, just might find such tools very useful indeed. Redmine ties into git very, very well. The combination of the two could provide a very thorough solution to the issue of revision control of journal articles and books. Redmine supports self registration. Once a contributor is set up with a project then the overhead of user administration can be, in large measure, left to the individual contributor to manage. A contributor, as a project "manager", can grant specific capabilities to individual collaborators. A contributor can even set up sub-projects beneath their main one. This can be all accomplished without having to burden the host organization with very much administrative detail. Redmine's presentation is css based so that producing a customized skin should be well within the capability and budget of even a very small outfit. With judicious configuration of Apache each project can be reached by a distinct URL like project1.institute.org. Given what you have revealed about your desire I think that it would be worth your time to look at Redmine in this light. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
