[Imc-alternatives] project management - getting organized!

[Aaron Kreider]

I think it could be useful to use online software to help manage the 
project.

I think Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/) would be a good solution for this.

I currently use Trac on my consulting job (a php/mysql project with five 
people).  At a minimum it would be useful for Task Tracking.  You would 
create a ticket for each task, someone volunteers for it (or you can 
assign it to someone - if it already in their area of work), people can 
comment on it, and you can track its status (how far from completition 
it is).  You can combine tickets into goals that make up a timeline.  
For instance, you might have a goal of a beta release of the Philly-IMC 
site running a demo-version of Alternatives IMC on Nov. 1. Then you 
could see what tasks needed to be done to reach that goal.

You could track tasks like
-documentation
-finding someone to lead the design team
-implementing a specific module
-organizing the first conference call
-fixing a bug

In the future, we could also use Trac as a code repository (I haven't 
set this up, but am using it to do this on my consulting job, so I 
presume it isn't that hard to do).  Integrating the code repository with 
the tickets system works very well!

Has anyone ever installed Trac before?  Has anyone else used it?  How 
would this fit in to using User Stories and Agile Development?  (I guess 
user stories turn into tickets.)

Aaron