I am looking for the environment or process that should be used to set up a collaborative project. It would seem that one must protect oneself from certain on-line elements (who simply are out to cause problems) and attempt to find through some sort of process the most appropriate collaborators. Obviously, I have never tried to set up such a project out of total ignorance. Thank you for your input.
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Depending upon the size of your collaborative group, you may also want to check out Team City.
Rob Scott
2009-05-03 12:48:51
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Collaboration processes consist of:
- documenting
- storing source code
- bug tracking
At first there were tools dedicated solely to just one of these processes, but with time they are becoming multi-functional. E.g. most bugtracking tools are kind of documenting tools too.
Which tool you're going to use also might depend on your development/production platform.
PHP thinker
2009-05-03 12:52:00
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Check out Backpack by 37signals, they do have free accounts.
I personally host ProjectThingy on my website, extremely simple, works very well.
Jax K
2009-05-03 13:34:50
+1
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For documenting best practices, tutorials, configuration settings, other collaborative user input, I recommend some sort of wiki, such as Confluence (http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/) or MediaWiki (free, used by WikiPedia): http://www.mediawiki.org/
For bug tracking / task management / requirements tracking, I recommend JIRA: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/
For source versioning, it doesn't get better than SVN. Free and open source: http://subversion.tigris.org/
It has a slight learning curve, but I recommend Maven for project management. It'll allow different developers to use: http://maven.apache.org/. Also free.
You should also consider a continuous integration server. I've used Continuum and enjoy it. I've also heard good things about CruiseControl.
Cheers
Cuga
2009-05-04 21:05:22