[izpack-devel] A few thoughts on the project infrastructures

[Max Fedorov]

Here is my 5 cents on project management tool. We are using dotproject
and pretty happywith it.



On 1/29/08, Julien Ponge <julien.ponge at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tino;
>
> > I'm against moving by principle. For me, the BerliOS infrastructure
> > works very well, I've never had problems (but I'm no active developer at
> > the moment).
>
> BerliOS is very fine for most projects and it has been working quite
> well for us. What I am mainly saying is that when you need more
> elaborated management tools, it is less satisfactory. And as the
> mailing-list guy I have seen a few issues (nothing extremely bad
> though).
>
> > We could also set up a Mantis... I'm willing to donate the Space and
> > bandwith (I've got a root server for my SpiritualDesign business anyway
> > which is mostly idle). I suppose, traffic/load shouldn't be too much
> > (traffic is unlimited anyway for me, it will just be limited to 10
> > MBit/s if I get over 1 TB IIRC.)
> >
> > I've got all infrastructure in place (Apache, PHP, MySQL, Mail, Backup
> > etc.), so you're welcome. I've got no mailing list setup yet though and
> > it's probably too much for me to administer/provide.
>
> Thanks a lot (really) for the offer, but I'd prefer something hosted
> where minimal investment is required if possible.
>
> I'm not a huge fan of Mantis (already tried).
>
> > JIRA is Java stuff, right? I don't feel like maintaining that, either,
> > although we've got a lot of Tomcats running and administered at work.
>
> Yep, JIRA needs a Java web container.
>
> > If it's only bug tracking: Keep BerliOS, setup own Bug Tracker (which
> > could be really customized to our needs then). You control izforge.com,
> > so we could add a DNS name bugs.izforge.com, possibly with own MX and
> > own mail adresses.
>
> I want more than a bug tracker, I want a tool for true project
> management, and JIRA fits this nicely. In Python there is Trac which I
> like a lot (and use in our research group). Its project management
> features are not as complete as JIRA, but it can already do a lot.
>
> Cheers
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