With my friends we are starting a company and we had found that we need application to manage tasks whitim our projects. Its it project. We use Subversion to keep our code updated.but our needs are wider,
Do HN tested open source freeware software for this task?
best wishes!
http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/Features
While you're at it, consider a continuous integration tool. Hudson worked great for us:
FYI, Trac floated to the top when i asked this same question a few months ago:
I want it to (a) track bug issues, (b) track milestones and a roadmap, (c) allow us to upload code to keep track of each of our changes to the code, and (d) give us a (login-restricted) wiki and/or forum so we can document the discussions/ideas we have.
I'll take a look at Trac in more detail later tonight, but if anybody knows off the top of your head if Trac (or some other software) does the things I mentioned above, let me know!
The wiki not only works for arbitrary documents, but it's pretty well integrated elsewhere. For example, a ticket submitted to Trac can use wiki syntax. The tickets can also refer to Subversion revision numbers.
As an Apache server it can be authenticated in the usual ways.
The tool has been extremely robust. They notify us well in advance of outages, both on their site and via twitter.
The most important item for gaining acceptance of the tool is that we can export our work from the tool into .csv so we can continue to work if Pivotal goes offline.
Highly recommended.
We use Basecamp to discuss features & comps, then Tracker to get them done. Trying to use Basecamp for both doesn't really work if you care about iterations, story points, etc. Some might say you don't need those, but they've given us a lot better predictability than we did at first.
It's tailor-made for a software startup, includes SVN integration and is free for <= 5 users.
Trac is also good because of its integration with subversion and it being open source.
Bunch of features: http://xp-dev.com/features/
Having said that, if you really want something standalone - Trac http://trac.edgewall.org/ and Redmine http://www.redmine.org/ come to mind. There is always Bugzilla (http://www.bugzilla.org/) if you want to go old school.
Of course, you could always just use a spreadsheet to track it all (please don't laugh at this - I've seen it used oh-so-many-times in the past).
The best part - and what gets the most use - is Messaging/comments. The ability to post comments directly related to a commit has become insanely powerful for our 2-man crew.
Best of all, you can do it all for free.
