Re: [Plone-developers] Community tooling for grouping and managing tasks

[Anthony G. <ant...@gm...>]

We use Redmine http://www.redmine.org/ which supports multiple and nested projects.  I like it a lot and more than JIRA or Trac

On 27/04/2011 02:08, Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> From time to time, we have "projects" - things like Diazo, Deco,
> Dexterity, plone.app.caching, skin/theme unification, etc. - that are
> bigger than one person and bigger than one package.
>
> I find it hard to do the design and "project management" around these
> kind of things. Mostly, I'd like to be able to define a list of
> deliverables that need completing (e.g. components, features, user
> stories), have a way to group and prioritise them, and allow people to
> take ownership over them. I'd also like some kind of visible progress
> indicator.
>
> The best thing we have for this now is Trac, but Trac makes it hard to
> find related tasks and doesn't have a great UI for planning and
> prioritisation. Our big "plone" Track instance also tends to drown out
> "projects" in a sea of bug reports.
>
> Does anyone have tools they'd like to recommend? Some options I can
> think of are:
>
>   - Etherpads with plain text to-do lists.
>
> Pros: Simple, full history, malleable
> Cons: Too simple? Limited to what you can describe on one page of text
>
>   - A new Trac instance per project
>
> Pros: Familiar tool, existing infrastructure
> Cons: Still not great UI, management overhead of getting plone.org
> admins to set one up
>
>   - A single Trac instance for "projects", using the "component" field
> to differentiate
>
> Pros: See previous
> Cons: See previous
>
>   - JIRA + GreenHopper, which is free for self-hosted open source
>
> Pros: Flexible and a lot more powerful than Trac; easy to create
> projects within the instance
> Cons: Not open source, overlaps a lot with Trac
>
>   - Pivotal Tracker
>
> Pros: Simple, clean user interface, free for public projects
> Cons: Model assumes sustained burst of activity, not ad-hoc work
>
> My vote would probably go to JIRA, just because I know it is powerful
> enough (I use it at work), but it's a pretty big undertaking to set it
> up. In the end, this stuff has no value unless people use it, though,
> so the real question is: Would you be interested in something like
> this?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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