Re: project management tool

[Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>]

Hello,

On 14-06-2009, Vincent Balat <vincent.balat@pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> Our first goals were mainly to find an application for our technologies, and 
> to write a forge to be used on our site, that would meet our own needs and 
> working habits. We are not really happy with current forges, (for example the 
> way they handle todo lists). But we have ideas for building a very powerful 
> tool that could compete with existing forges. Obviously it will be open source 
> and we would be happy to discuss the features with interested people. But 
> again, we have no idea when this project will reach a usable state ...
>

Vincent and I (in the name of ocamlcore.org team), have discussed this
forge project. Just to be clear:
- OCsigen team is running for now Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/)
- OCaml Forge is running GForge and will upgrade to fusion forge in the
  near future (http://fusionforge.org/)

Trac has some issue with speed and is not as good as gforge to integrate
many projects and users. GForge is a good tool for large forge projects
but is not eye candy at all and is too complicated for average user, you
need to learn a bit of mailman/GForge et al before mastering the forge.

Other interesting forge like project includes Redmine.

Vincent wish to create a forge like project in pure OCaml using ocsigen.
One instance of this project will be opened at ocamlcore.org, when it
will be mature enough (something like http://ocsforge.ocamlcore.org) 
and that all the ocamlcore.org team will agree on this.

Regards
Sylvain Le Gall