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- 2009-Dec-16: Slashdot discusses task and project tracking tools. [8849]
- 2009-Feb-27: A Slashdot discussion about help desk software for small companies. [7653]
- 2009-Feb-21: A recommendation for HelpSpot, a commercial help desk application. [7616]
- 2008-Dec-25: A comparison of two bug tracking systems: Ditz and Bugs Everywhere. [7387]
- 2008-Oct-15: In First Impressions of Darcs a user new to Darcs finds that everything is a patch and the more common concept of revisions is missing. [7028]
- 2008-Jul-31: Some thoughts on what a test case/regression tracking tool should include. [6613]
- 2008-Jun-20: Experiences in writing a build system. [6393]
- 2008-Jun-11: In Deleting Roles the problems associated with deleting security roles in a bug tracking system are discussed. [6313]
- 2008-May-27: The pysvn package provides a Python interface to the subversion revision control system. This article discusses using pysvn to interact with the GoogleCode system. [6239] [1]
- 2008-Apr-17: ikaaro is a Content Management system built in Python. [5836]
- 2008-Apr-12: A feature list for project management systems. [5782]
- 2008-Apr-11: The Dr. Project team writes a bit about some of the other project management systems on the market. [5770]
- 2008-Apr-07: Using Bazaar to hack on Twisted, talks about using a DVCS (distributed version control system) to coordinate work in an off-line environment for a project that is normally tracked by a conventional centralized version control system. The discussion here is for using Bazaar to work on a project in Subversion, but the same approach could be used with other DVCS systems like Mercurial. [5617]
- 2008-Feb-10: roundup is an issue-tracking system with command line, web and email interfaces written in Python. [5075]
- Subversion, an aternate version control system, is nearing its first production release. [5603]
- Slashdot debates source code version control systems [5602]
- The WikiPedia article Comparison of revision control software. [4747]
- Distributed versus pipelined builds and testing. [4746]
- kforge, an open-source (GPL) system for managing software and knowledge projects. [4745]
- An article that has a quick overview of many of the modern revision control systems. [4744]
- GIT (main page here) is the revision control system initially developed by Linus for the Linux kernel (manual page here), he mentions it briefly in this article. A talk by Linus on GIT is here, in which he rants against CVS and SVN (some of which is quite well deserved) and even Google. Currently it it requires Cygwin to run under Windows, and as such, it runs slower under Windows than on a Linux host. GIT gets mentioned here along with a discussion of branch merging in Subversion. A brief comparison of mercurial and git. Another comparison that talks about how git's branching is more powerful than mercurial's. GitPython is a Python library that can work with Git repositories, so if you need to do something tedious or complicated there is a chance you could automate it with this and some Python code. [4743]
- A Slashdot discussion of ticket tracking and customer management systems. [4742]
- A discussion of tracking changes in the contents of files (which is what programmers normally think of) versus changes in the name or location of files (which is more of interest to systems administrators). [4741]
- A little rant on version control, this article mentions CVS, Subversion and some of the distributed version control systems such as Arch, Bazaar, Mercurial and darcs. [4740]
- NASA has released some of its robotics software to the public. [4739]
- Bug Trackers: Do They Really All Suck? This has some good commentary on the merits of various bug tracking (i.e. issue tracking) systems. [4738]
- A discussion and performance comparison of Bazaar and Mercurial. [4737]
- BuildBot is an automated build/test system. [4736]
- Mecurial is a source code management system. [4735]
- Silva, is a content management system (CMS) allowing for the storage, versioning, editing, review and publication of documents by a team of authors and editors. The document source is in XML and this allows source fragments to be reused for various purposes. [4734]
- A Slashdot review of: Lean Software Development, by Mary and Tom Poppendieck, ISBN: 0321150783. [4733]
- Some projects, like the Denver Airport's automated baggage system, end up abandoned [4732]
- A Slashdot article on source code/requirements management systems [4731]
- Alma, software for modeling, analyzing and converting code between languages [4730]
- GCJ is a GNU compiler for Java [4729]
- Revision control, requirements and bug tracking in the Linux 2.6 kernel development [4728]
- distcc is a tool for distributing C/C++ compile loads across a network [4727]
- jxProject a project planning tool in Java [4726]
- Slashdot discusses automated software testing [4725]
- A Slashdot Poll asked what revision control system Linux should switch to from BitKeeper, while the resounding top choice was the mind meld (obviously a very effective technique) the followup discussion has quite a bit of feedback about the various real systems that are available. Commercial choices include Perforce, ClearCase and BitKeeper. Free solutions include CVS, Subversion, Arch, Monotone, git and Bazaar-ng. [4724]
- trac is an integrated wiki, bug tracker and source code management tool written in Python [4723]
- Codeville, see codeville.org, this is a distributed version control system [4722]