Melvin's digital garden

Groupware for Research Groups

Trac

Website: [http://trac.edgewall.org/] Pages: Y Ease of editing: textbox with toolbar Rich formatting: basic wiki formatting Calendar + email: Y (plugin) News: Y (plugin) Design layout: [[http://www.redmine.org/wiki/1/howto_create_a_custom_redmine_theme|limited] Forum: Y (plugin) File repository: Subversion, Mercurial Day to day maintenance: easy Ease of migration: ??? Other notable features:

  • many [http://www.trac-hacks.org|plugins] available
  • plugins may not integrate well, needs to be maintained Examples:
  • [http://sands.sce.ntu.edu.sg/trac]
  • [http://kuala.smu.edu.sg/trac]
  • [http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/trac/]
  • [http://www.oversim.org/]
  • [http://kingkong.amath.washington.edu/trac/]

Fossil

Website: [http://www.fossil-scm.org] Pages: Y Ease of editing: textbox Rich formatting: yes, full HTML Calendar + email: N News: N Design layout: full HTML Forum: N, but can simulated by appending to wiki pages File repository: Y (integrated) Day to day maintenance: easy Ease of migration: easy Other notable features:

  • fully distributed,
  • can be updated when offline and sync back later
  • source code is in C, easy to modify
  • low requirements, only needs cgi support on server Examples:
  • [http://ras-5.ddns.comp.nus.edu.sg/cgi-bin/ortho/doc/tip/doc/index.wiki|Ortho]
  • [http://www.fossil-scm.org]
  • [http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/index.cgi/index]
  • [http://code.autonomo.us/index]
  • [http://codingrobots.org/p/shiny-theme/index]
  • [http://support.librelist.com/home]
  • [http://learnpythonthehardway.org/home]

Redmine

Website: [http://www.redmine.org] Pages: Y Ease of editing: textbox with toolbar Rich formatting: wiki formatting Calendar + email: Y News: Y Design layout: [[http://www.redmine.org/wiki/1/howto_create_a_custom_redmine_theme|limited] Forum: Y File repository:

  • Subversion, CVS, CVSNT,
  • Mercurial, Bazaar, Darcs, Git Day to day maintenance: easy Ease of migration: ??? Other notable features:
  • built using RoR platform
  • support for hierarchy of projects
  • gantt chart
  • rss feed instead of email notification
  • user self registration
  • user creation of projects Examples:
  • [http://demo.redmine.org/projects/rastest]
  • [http://plrg.ics.mq.edu.au/]
  • [http://project.mosuma.net/]
  • [http://serg.cs.drexel.edu/]
  • [https://neptuno.uca.es/redmine/]

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