Hello Tony!
I forgot to comment on this one.
In the ArgoUML project we use the Issuezilla database and the Tigris site to
do this. It is well suited for Open Source development in a loose
organization with persons that have a the time spent in the project varying
over time. Once you have gotten your Observer role granted you are welcome
to work with the enhancements and defects and you can also send the issues
to the person you think is the best suited person to do further work on
them.
/Linus
2008/1/12, Tony | Zearin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Heylo everyone. I wanted to tell you about another tool for developers I
> found a little while ago.
>
> It's called *Factory* (though stored in the database as "Project Factory",
> possibly a previous name for the software). It's a side-project written by
> a French developer named David Lambert.
>
> *Factory* is designed to track lots of data about projects, and is written
> with teams of developers in mind, although I imagine it could be useful to
> single developers as well. Some central concepts are *Actors*, *Teams*, *
> Organizations*, *Locations*, *Schedules*, and (of course) *Projects*.
> It's also capable of code generation, but this feature is not yet an easily
> visible part of the program. According to author David Lambert, at this
> point in its development, over 50% of *Factory*'s code has been generated
> by Factory itself. Kinda cool. :)
>
> I've tried the program and I think it's extremely well done, but could
> stand several usability enhancements. Not so much in the realms of
> unexpected behavior--it is reasonably predictable--but more in the sense
> that I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to provide a lot of the forms.
> For example, *Projects* contain version-based *Plans*, which in turn
> contain *Forecast*, *Status*, and *Tracking* screens. I don't know what
> the hell to do with these. Maybe it's because the author is French; or
> because I'm a reasonably inexperienced programmer, since my foundations are
> in webpages; or maybe it's something that just needs more work.
>
> Despite this fact, I think it nevertheless has a lot of potential in its
> future--possibly including collaboration with *ArgoUML*--although I don't
> believe either team is ready for this yet. When that time comes, however, I
> think there's the possibility of some beautiful cooperation between
> programs, if that's not overly-wishful thinking on my part. :)
>
> (I actually wrote David Lambert and told him about *ArgoUML*. He says
> it's a good thing to keep on the radar, but it's not on his short-term list
> just yet. He did mention that he uses *Poseidon*, a commercial tool based
> on *ArgoUML*. I tried *Poseidon*'s demo, and it basically worked the same
> way with some shinier UI and one or two new ways of working with designs.)
>
> *Factory* lives on SourceForge. The public site is
> here<http://projectfactory.sourceforge.net/>,
> and the developer's site is
> here<http://sourceforge.net/projects/projectfactory/>.
>
>
> I especially recommend checking out the "White Paper"and "Background"
> pages of the public site. I found them interesting reads.
>
> That's all for now. Thanks for reading!
>
> -- Tony | "Zearin"
>
>
