My department here at NCBI is finding that we have a hard
time keeping track of who is working on what project, what
decisions were made in meetings, when tasks are due, who is
responsible for what, etc.

Does anyone know of good, open-source groupware
for collaborative development? I'm interested
in tracking both software development, and projects in general.
It would be cool if it were Zope or Plone, but doesn¹t
have to be.

Ideally, I'd like to have:

  per-project task, feature, bug, issue lists
  project feature, bug, etc. lists groupable by release
  project wiki
  global project directory
  project blog for discussions about projects
  RSS interop (so NetNewsWire tells me when stuff is added)
  email interop (for trolls who insist on email for everything)
  meeting log integrated with calendar
  to do list
  individual items accomplished list
  and so on

I'm not at all interested in managerish stuff like Gantt
charts and pie graphs. This is more to manage collaborative
development in an environment where everyone is working
on a dozen things, decisions are made mostly by consensus, and
project management is distributed.

Any advice?
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Mark,

Do a search on Sourceforge.net for a product called
round-up; it's a zope-oriented issue tracking system. 
We have been modifying it for bug tracking ourselves.

It does not do the Wiki or RSS capability, but can
interface to email systems for notifications.  And it
does not do a calendar inetagration.  These are items
we are thinking of adding at some point when we roll
it it out as a general issue tracking system.

Paul



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On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 15:43 -0400, Mark Johnson wrote:[...]

I started working on something to fill this void, but Kapil (who wrote
CMFSubversionBrowser among other things) has been working on PloneForge
for Computer Associates.  The code is supposed to be GPL'd and released
soonish, so if you can hold off for a month or so, that might be worth
investigating.

On a "whats currently out there" front:
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PloneCollectorNG can do all of this I believe.
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I think plone.org uses zwiki for this.
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I'm not sure what you mean. For files or for people?  For files you
could use PloneLocalFolderNG to get a plone view on a filesystem
directory.  For people, well there is not a solution yet.
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You can wait a month and use Quills (shameless self promotion there), or
use SimpleBlog or CMFWeblog.
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I am not familiar with NetNewsWire, but plone has RSS built in for most
things.  The template is kinda lousy though.
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I know very little about email notification in Plone, though
PloneCollectorNG supports it for issue tracking, for other things you
will likely have to DIY.
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This I know nothing about.  You might want to look into PloneICalendar
or CalendarX, both of which were recent news entries on plone.org.
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You could manage this with basic Plone content types (document, or a
wiki pageif you set that up)... but that is a little ghetto.  Personally
I'd use PloneCollectorNG for this.
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PloneCOllectorNG again perhaps, I'm not sure.
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Good luck :)

Kind Regards,
Tom
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