Posted on Feb 9, 2012

Open source project management

As a part of kicking off our development, we started using a basic project management system thats built into wordpress however it lacks 99% of the functionality that we really need for distributed project planning, management and development. If any one can weigh in on options here for a underlying project management system thats free for OSS developers, open/transparent for users and easy to use at the same time we would love to know!

10 Comments

  • jorge carlos da silva says:

    Ohhh! Thanks for letting us know how is the development of Jahshaka 3.0

  • Matthew Jordan says:

    Well there’s always Sourceforge and another one built for Open Source projects with multiple people working on it, but I can’t remember the name, it’s not extremely popular though.

  • Fuji Eccentric Erigious says:

    might worth Looking at this Agile:
    https://seenowdo.com/index.xhtml

  • Martin says:

    I have been looking forward to being able to use the new jahshaka. Now I see that it is still under development :-(

    Anyway, where are you hosting your development? SourceForge? GitHub? They all have built-in project management capabilities (like tracking issues, milestones, bugs, etc. etc.) Your best bet is to check out what they have available, or whereever you are hosting your source code.

  • Lance says:

    You might just trying adding BuddyPress to the WP installation. That would give you groups. There are also numerous extensions for both WP and BuddyPress for document management, event scheduling etc. For bug tracking, I have always liked Mantis.

  • Martin says:

    I just wanted to add that on SourceForge, with your project, you also get a wiki, a mailing list, forums. GitHub might offer all these things as well (at least it has a wiki that I know of) while I think Google Code’s functionality is a bit more sparse. Anyway, check it out, I think you will find all the functionality you need there.

  • Mahmoud Fawzy says:

    http://openatrium.com/ is the way to go –I think :) . However, giving more details on what you want (the other 99%) would help a lot in helping you ;)

  • Fuji Eccentric Erigious says:

    http://www.atlassian.com/opensource/

    from here, you can apply for free opensource license
    for the following products:

    JIRA + GreenHopper + Bonfire
    Confluence
    Crowd
    Clover
    Crucible
    FishEye
    Bamboo
    SharePoint Connector for Confluence
    Confluence Team Calendars

  • Connor N. says:

    ever looked up joomla? i know it’s essentially WordPress, but much much more powerful, with all the extensions you could easily create a forum type of section on the site, based on what group you’re a part of… if that makes since. but you have to have a webhost to use it (such as Bluehost)

  • Patrick Howard says:

    open source project management apps… – (courtesy of my internship sponsor – Chuck Johnson – “Big Bad Wolf Creative Group” Fort Worth Texas.)

    http://mastersinprojectmanagement.org/top-25-open-source-project-management-apps.html