ProjectManagementTools

PHILOSOPHY:

Take Bugzilla's view of the world that everything is a bug: where the concept subsumes issues and tasks

COMPARISONS:

Here are some free software project management tools:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_project_management_software

Feature comparison across these and others:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_project_management_software

and here's a list of potential features:

ESSENTIAL:

• Web-based interface
  • single ID, integrated login or part of main kendra site
    • (Use OpenID? to link across multiple domains)
• We host it and control it - open source software
• Federated / interoperable with itself (xml / rdf read only access behind a login - oauth?)
  • View of:
    • What projects am I on?
    • What tasks are allocated to me?
    • Events (meetings/milestones)
  • Conflict resolution via aggregated view of the above.
  • Goal is for people to have visibility across projects, not vice-versa
• Calendar
• Role-based access control
• Issue tracking system
• News, documents & files management
• Simple time tracking functionality
• Discussion: Comments, Forums and mailing lists (implementation unknown)
• Feeds & e-mail notifications.
• Multiple projects support

Main Website Goals too:

• ...
• Tagging Per-project wiki pages
• SCM integration (SVN, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and Darcs)

IMPORTANT:

• Critical path analysis (gantt chart)
• Organisation diagram - functional dependencies between projects and tasks.
• Bug: Issue or task. Dependencies between issues and tasks.

THINGS WE GET FOR FREE WITH DRUPAL:

• Custom fields for issues, time-entries, projects and users [CCK does this]
• Multilanguage support [Kendra projects working language is English: Drupal supports internationalization]
• User self-registration support [Drupal does this]

REALLY UNIMPORTANT:

• LDAP authentication support