Redmine for software project management
Back in 2008, I posted about the project management system, Project Pier, which was a fork of Active Collab. The system served my groups and I well for a while… but it was limited in different areas. Overall I thought it too slow and not so much tailored for software development as the new system I’m been using Redmine.
Redmine is a Ruby “clone” of the python based Trac system, which is also pretty good. I say clone because it’s really just influenced by I Trac, there goals were different than the Trac project. I decided on Redmine because it seemed to fit the bill for my group’s needs.
- It supported SVN and git browser integration.
- Per project wiki
- Per project user levels
- Issue tracking
- lightweight
- extendible (already some nice modules for download)
I haven’t had much hands on experience with Ruby but my buddy Dan Kinsley is a big advocate of RoR and after installing this, I can see why. The install was smooth and professional, largely done through the terminal. It went through without a hitch and immediately after logging into the newly setup system, I noticed how fast it was. This application makes good use of javascript and AJAX.
I was able to get SVN and git repos hooked in pretty quickly with specific projects and so far it’s been helping me manage tasks and layout projects better and faster than Project Pier.
