As some of you know, I'm a big fan of the Atlassian products as JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Crucible, ... etc, etc, ... The big disavantage to this tool, is the cost of the product. It's not free ... and for small companies, not always easy to integrate in their IT system.
So I have been looking a while to find a free alternative, and I think I found it: it's called => Trac ( http://trac.edgewall.org/ ).
Short introduction:
Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team's established development process and policies.
It provides an interface to Subversion (or other version control systems), an integrated Wiki and convenient reporting facilities.
Trac allows wiki markup in issue descriptions and commit messages, creating links and seamless references between bugs, tasks, changesets, files and wiki pages. A timeline shows all current and past project events in order, making the acquisition of an overview of the project and tracking progress very easy.
The tool is written in Python and works like a charm. I can do everything with it, as with the Atlassian tools (for wiki and ticketing stuff I mean). Also, notice this repository: http://trac-hacks.org/. A lot of open source community developers are contributing nice plugins!
We are currently using:
- TicketImport: for the migration of Excel files to our ticketing system
- AgiloForScrumPlugin: an agile/scrum plugin, which we use to organize our sprints
- TracTicketChanges: scans the SCM commits => when a ticket number is found in the log message, a link will be created from the ticketing system to the source repository
Give it a try and enjoy :-) !!!
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