Freelance programer's notes

To fulfill previous post I want to provide my research on free online issue and bug tracking systems available on the Internet. Surprisingly there are very few of them matching my criteria: 5 users minimum, 10000 tickets minimum, closed for public. Here they are: The only totally free & unlimited is defectr.com . It has limited functionality and funny UI but has no users nor projects limitations. My choice #1 for not complex projects. w3spt.com offers 10000 messages/5 users/100Mb-limited complex integrated project tracking system . It has a lot of custom views and reports such as FAQ, Forum, Feedback zone, Knowledge base . I would recommend it for complex but not huge projects. And the last one I want to mention is teamatic.com . It provides simple tracker for 5 persons with 5Mb attachments storage and nice interface . It may be used for small simple projects.

I spent a lot of time to choose high-quality online software project tools for free . Some of them are not so "free" other ones have a lot of ads or have low quality. Trying different solutions I chose following: Instant public chat : there is an options. You may create IRC channel on efnet.org or maintain public chat with Skype (BTW Skype supports up to 150 chat members now). Collaborative documents authoring : Google Docs have no competitors in this area. FAQ service : personally I prefer bravenet 's one. Mail list / discussion group : again Google Groups is the best one. Project management : unfortunately I was unable to find any wholly satisfactory project management online service. If you know one please let me know.

In previous post I called opensvn.csie.org one of the best free SVN repositories for closed source . Now I want to show how to configure integrated Trac initially. First of all go to "Manage Your Project" tab and login. Go to "trac" tab and click "interface to trac-admin" link. Enter " permission add username TRAC_ADMIN ", where "username" is your login, to text field and press "Execute" button. After that you may visit your Trac (https://opensvn.csie.org/traccgi/username) and configure it using " Admin " web interface.

For small non-profit or freelance projects I used free assembla SVN repository and admin page before. After it became paid for closed-source projects I spent a lot of time to find the replacement. Here are my best findings: opensvn.csie.org - the best one. One repo, unlimited space, unlimited users, Trac & Trac admin. svn.xp-dev.com/app - another "the best" one. Unlimited repos (5 initially), unlimited space (300 Mb per repo initially), custom tracker (not very comfortable), unlimited users. unfuddle.com - has both free & paid plans. Free one is 200Mb for 2 persons Git or Subversion repositories, tracker. Unfriendly interface. codespaces.com - only 50 Mb for private repo for 2 users, wiki + tracker. Hope this will be helpful.