[ale] collaborative work environment

[Frederick N. Brier]

I use Redmine.  It is a web-based project management application with a built in wiki, document management, issue tracking, forums, news, role based security, and integration with a variety of VCS including Git, SVN, and CVS.  Those are the features I use, but it has more.  It supports multiple projects where each project gets its own wiki, etc.  That is kind of useful if you like to spin up projects quickly or like some place to stash your ideas and designs for future projects.  On rare occasions, I have had some weird rendering issues where it looks like the CSS was not applied, but that could have been the browser.   Other than that, it has been stable and fairly easy to update.

If you are into agile development, you can use the issue tracking to define new features.  People can make comments and you can go back and update the issue text.  The first time I had to do that, it seemed almost like a hidden feature, but that could have been fixed since I last updated.  Wikis are better than Word documents as they are living documents.  They track changes and can be shared.  I use them for overall architecture and design documents and they can incorporate pictures.  You can also easily link to other Internet or intranet resources such as products, JavaDoc, generated build artifacts, environment servers (Dev/QA/UAT/Prod), or other wikis that document network topology (I used Twiki).

Fred

On 11/09/2010 02:23 PM, John wrote:
> Redmind http://www.redmine.org/ looks very interesting for code
> projects. It is ruby, so that could be a plus or minus depending on your
> RoR skills.  I don't have direct experience with it, yet.
>
>
>
> On 11/09/2010 02:17 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> Jim Kinney wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Richard Bronosky<Richard at bronosky.com
>>> <mailto:Richard at bronosky.com>>   wrote:
>>>
>>>       Confluence is a lie. We use it at my company and it doesn't deliver on
>>>       the promise.
>>>
>>>       Use IRC on freenode with a logger bot. Make the channel private.
>>>       Simple ancient tech. Done.
>>>
>>>       The "checked out" paradigm is terrible and MSFT Visual Source Safe is
>>>       the only product I know of that uses it. I would suggest Google docs.
>>>       Don't over complicate things
>>>
>>>
>>> Ever tried merging word processing docs from multiple sources? TOTAL PItA!
>>>
>>> I have seen (and used) an openoffice odt gunzippped and put into a
>>> subversion repo. Sortof worked. Probably be better if it was a git repo
>>> instead.
>>>
>> We keep everything from C source code, perl source code, sql source
>> code, configuration files, images, Open Office docs, and tarballs in
>> subversion, nary a problem.  I'm curious what problem you ran into?
>> Aren't odt docs really compressed tar xml files or something of that
>> nature?  Curious why you would gzip it.
>>
>>
>>>       On 11/9/10, John Scott<John.Scott at peak10.com
>>>       <mailto:John.Scott at peak10.com>>   wrote:
>>>        >>   I am looking for a set of tools to help in an upcoming project.
>>>        >
>>>        >   Check out Confluence:
>>>        >   http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/
>>>        >
>>>        >
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