Submitted by SourceForge has announced the SourceForge Enterprise Edition Download. This is a free, 15 user download version of SFEE. It’s packaged together with Subversion and CVS in a VMware image. SFEE is a corporate version of SourceForge.net that lets development teams work together on internal software projects. It’s an integrated toolset that lets you monitor project status, find out what your offsite developers are doing, access project information and documentation in a central repository, manage software changes efficiently, and search across your software projects. Check it out and download it from SourceForge.net . There’s also a community support site with documentation, discussion forums, add-ons, and sample projects.
I love sourceforge and I am actually using a fork of it named GForge (http://gforge.org)….Frankly, I like “free stuff” better than “stuff for free”…Instead, I would love to see a nice Xen image with GForge on it along with all the paraphernalia to create a beautiful FOSS-based distributed development environment
Well, there is a VMWare image similar to this one but with GForge. http://www.spisser.it/gforge/
I just found it linked on GForge’s own page and I’m in fact downloading it now, just to try it.
I use it at my ‘day job’ and its has its good and bad points—
Good:
* Very tight CVS / Subversion intergration.
* You can ‘link’ any type of info.. Bugs, documents, tasks, VCS commits, etc.
* Good web admin interface
* A very complete SOAP API.
Bad:
* The worst Wiki implementation I have used.
* No RSS feeds for anything.
* One of the worst ‘discussion’/ forum interfaces I have ever used.
Edited 2006-06-08 18:57
Here we use a combination of Borland’s StarTeam & CaliberRM and then JIRA. I find them terrible… but I’ve got no say. StarTeam is alright, JIRA is bearable… but CaliberRM I find useless. YMMV
I don’t see how SF could be worse.
Add to Bad:
* Slow as hell at times
* At some parts fairly buggy
But still SF is great. They should have opened up thery free version though.
I’m a developer for Centric CRM, and the tool that drives our website, http://www.centriccrm.com is called Team Elements.
This tool has Wikis, Discussion Forums, Downloads, Project Plans, Issue Tracking, Indexed data, etc. It’s been recently released under the Centric Public License and is now available for free download as well.
It’s Java webapp that runs under Apache Tomcat and PostgreSQL. The source code is forthcoming, of which most is already in Centric CRM. Anyhow, if you’re looking for collaboration please give it a try.
http://www.teamelements.com
Edited 2006-06-09 02:05
Check out trac:
http://www.edgewall.com/trac/
SVN integration, wiki, issue-tracking…and a great community with add-ons:
http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/