Taco Hoekwater wrote:
It would be nice to have a gforge environment available for tracking context changes/wishes/bugs. Even without SVN, the tracking features can be very helpful.
A lot of people seem to be using Trac for this kind of stuff. It even interfaces with subversion (if that’s the SCM you must use (there are a lot better ones, but I guess subversion is the most windows-friendly at the moment)).
I believe subversion is the most 'cvs-user' friendly system, and it is widely supported by lots of software, but perhaps those are not the best arguments. Can you give me a pointer to something better?
Yes, that is true, but as you say, this may not be the best arguments. There’s darcs (www.darcs.net), git (http://www.kernel.org/git/), and GNU Arch (gnuarch.org) (and the Bazaar project (bazaar.canonical.com)). My current preference is Arch, but git looks promising _if they get their act together_. Darcs is very simple to use and very powerful. The downside is that it is written in Haskell, so it requires non-standard tools to compile. I do, however, believe that it has been ported to windows. Arch and git have less than usable support for windows at the moment, as far as I know. I’d suggest looking into all the current alternatives to CVS before deciding on one. Subversion is considered to be nothing but a ill-thought-through upgrade to CVS by the people who know what they’re talking about.
More information at http://trac.edgewall.com/trac/,
Trac looks lice, and it is apparently easier to set up than Gforge, that's a good thing. On the downside, it uses SQLite, and it seems that multiple project support is 'not there yet'.
From a users’s perspective, GForge is less than optimal. At least from my perspective as a user. It’s trackers are hard to use and hard to manage (and plain ugly to look at - heck, bugzilla’s even prettier). I don’t see a problem with SQLite, but I may not be seeing the whole picture. Multiple project support would be nice, though, nikolai
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