Wow! I'm deeply impressed. If I've found anything about the OS community, it's that there are way too many projects and way too few contributors :-(
Maybe you should host an installation on you server to get some users, and further down the line some of them will start handing you modest patches at first before getting more deeply involved?
Cheers, Gary
James Urquhart
· 2 years ago
Gaz,
Good idea, although RailsCollab by nature isn't very multi-user friendly so i'm slightly reluctant with regard to hosting a demo.
Still, i guess it couldn't hurt. Although i'm going to wait till i have time to plonk on a decent ruby rails installation on the box till i do anything further with it.
Thanks,
James
Ryan Doherty
· 2 years ago
Sweet! I felt the same way when I heard ActiveCollab went commercial. We lost an awesome project management app in my opinion.
I've toyed with the idea too of creating a BaseCamp/ActiveCollab clone. There's nothing too technically difficult about it, it's just a lot of work :)
I did a little work for ActiveCollab, but I found their framework way to heavy and complex, Rails has spoiled me.
I'll be honest, I'd love to work on it, but I just don't have the time. I'm still glad to hear there are people out there with the same ideas!
Roland
· 2 years ago
There is another fork of activeCollab 0.71 called ProjectPier. I am one of currently 5 people working on that.
Right now we are collecting all 0.71 themes and translations and rebrand aC 0.71 to PP to PP 0.8 which will be our first version. Additionally we are working on a Drupal based website at http://drupal.projectpier.org to replace the (ugly) existing website at pp.org.
In the next version we like to enhance the tool and simplify it on it's rough edges :-)
If you like to join, please contact us through the Drupal web site. You will be very welcome.
Cheers Roland
Gantt Chart Software
· 8 months ago
Very good write up and thanks for mentioning RailsCollab - I hadn't heard about that one before.
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Wow! I'm deeply impressed. If I've found anything about the OS community, it's that there are way too many projects and way too few contributors :-(
Maybe you should host an installation on you server to get some users, and further down the line some of them will start handing you modest patches at first before getting more deeply involved?
Cheers,
Gary
Good idea, although RailsCollab by nature isn't very multi-user friendly so i'm slightly reluctant with regard to hosting a demo.
Still, i guess it couldn't hurt. Although i'm going to wait till i have time to plonk on a decent ruby rails installation on the box till i do anything further with it.
Thanks,
James
I've toyed with the idea too of creating a BaseCamp/ActiveCollab clone. There's nothing too technically difficult about it, it's just a lot of work :)
I did a little work for ActiveCollab, but I found their framework way to heavy and complex, Rails has spoiled me.
I'll be honest, I'd love to work on it, but I just don't have the time. I'm still glad to hear there are people out there with the same ideas!
Right now we are collecting all 0.71 themes and translations and rebrand aC 0.71 to PP to PP 0.8 which will be our first version. Additionally we are working on a Drupal based website at http://drupal.projectpier.org to replace the (ugly) existing website at pp.org.
In the next version we like to enhance the tool and simplify it on it's rough edges :-)
If you like to join, please contact us through the Drupal web site. You will be very welcome.
Cheers
Roland