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Loving codespaces.com for subversion and project management
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| Posted by: Dave Amphlett |
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:28:41 GMT |
As my website project nears the first stage of alpha-testing, I'm starting to take the project management & bug tracking side of it more seriously...
Most of the time I've spent on this project has been learning how to make DotNetNuke and ASP.NET do what I want it to do. I have now figured out (pretty much) enough of the building blocks to put together a rudimentary first implementation. So all of a sudden Project Management, Bug Tracking, and good solid Source Code and Verison Management are key.
I hunted around and found several companies offering Subversion hosting. When I'm building a company around some software, I prefer to pay for hosting and know that I can hold someone accountable for the services I'm paying for.
Most of the offerings I found were poorly integrated Subversion and Trac combinations. I feel that would be adequate, but out of the 3 people working on this project I'm the only techie. The other two will need to be able to enter initial bug reports, and Trac just seems way too complicated for them to get into. Also, I'd like to use just one project management system for the tasks I assign to the other two people on the project, and Trac is just a little bit too much code specific for them to be comfortable.
So I was looking for something simple looking, that wouldn't scare the non-techies, but was functional enough for a basic project management system. That supported Subversion and linked the bug tracking to it.
Codespaces.com seems to tick (almost) all of those boxes. There are a few areas where it's coming up just slightly short, but it seems that the next update to the system due at the end of Feb 2008 will address almost all of those slight shortcomings.
I've been using it now for just over a week. For a relatively new system Codespaces.com is a very well put together application and seems to hits the sweet spot of functionality and simplicity that I was looking for. I'll continue to try it out for a week or so, and see how well v2.0 addresses the little niggles, and will report back here as to how it's looking.
Oh finally, I must mention that Floyd Price, the guy at Codespaces.com most active on the forums, has been incredibly helpful while I've been trying it out. He's been happy to discuss my suggestions and has pointed out functionality I'd missed that certianly helps me.
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| Copyright 2008 Dave Amphlett |
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