What are the most popular project managment softwares and why?

Question

Hey Everyone,

I'm an employee at a small company that is going to be launching a version control system soon and I'm trying to consider which PROJECT MANAGEMENT software would best serve this company for version control. I wanted to get as many opinions as possible. Right now, I'm experimenting with Trac and Indefero running atop a SVN server.

So my question is, what is the most popular/favorite project management software and why?

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EDIT: Corrected my question: I'm interested in project managment tools, not version control. I'm using SVN, what project managment tools can I use?

Sorry for causing a freak out.

Answer 1

SVN is probably the most popular, but distributed systems (Git, Mercurical, etc.)are increasing in popularity. Read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/03/17.html

Answer 2

Your mention of Trac makes it sound like you're asking about more than just version control. Are you looking at version control and project management tools that work well together? Redmine is a nice successor to Trac if you have multiple projects to manage, although my understanding is that Trac has the larger user community. Subversion works well with Redmine, but it also has hooks for several other version control systems, including Git, which as Adam points out is gaining steam.

Jira has a lot of supporters and clients, although I have no experience with it personally. It also integrates with Subversion and Git. I think you'll find that's a common theme amongst software development-oriented project management tools.

Answer 3

This has already been discussed ... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/995636/popularity-of-git-mercurial-bazaar-vs-which-to-recommend.