[IAEP] teams vs. projects

[Sameer Verma]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
<dirakx at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my opinion we  should use a customized trac for project management, i
> don't like to have too many resources to take into
> count, we already have the necessary ones (Trac, mediawiki..moodle)
>

+1

Sameer

> The Gantt plugin it's a good solution there.
>
>
> Rafael Ortiz
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Sameer Verma wrote:
>> >> dotProject (http://www.dotproject.net/) and Project.net
>> >> (http://www.project.net/) are good candidates. They are both FOSS,
>> >> although I haven't had much luck locating Project.net's FOSS license.
>> >> Their Bus. Dev. guy tells me that the next release will be GPLv3.
>> >
>> > dotProject is marked as "other/proprietary license" on SourceForge.
>> >
>>
>> Actually dotProject is under GPLv2
>> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dotproject/), while Project.net is
>> marked Proprietary/other. Project.net is under "commercial open
>> source" license, whatever that means. I did not get a clear answer out
>> of their Business Dev VP. He kept talking in circles and finally said
>> that the next release was going to be GPLv3.
>>
>> > Redmine (http://www.redmine.org/) seemed like a promising clone of
>> > trac more oriented towards project management.
>>
>> Yes, I remember Bryan Berry (OLE Nepal) mentioning it a while back.
>>
>>
>> > I proposed evaluating
>> > it some time ago, but the developers are too used to trac to consider
>> > switching.
>>
>> Trac does have a Gantt module written in Python
>> (http://willbarton.com/code/tracgantt/) and we looked at it a while
>> back for SF State. We use Trac for managing our iLearn (branded Moodle
>> install) system and wanted some PM charts such as Gantt. We found the
>> granularity provided by this module to be too large to be useful. It
>> tracks milestones instead of tickets.
>>
>> Maybe someone here could hack it to make it more suitable.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sameer
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor of Information Systems
>> San Francisco State University
>> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
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