Software Development Management Tools

Hi,

We're hoping to embark on a small project in the next few weeks and want to have strict control over the management of our assests and code. This means a having a central 'pool' which everyone has access to and anyone can 'book out' some part of the project. Then once they have finished they can book it back in and others can check the changes which have occurred.

Does anyone please know of any free software which will enable this type of control? Does it exist? Is there a shareware tool which may do this same job?

Many thanks,

IPete2.

I use Subversion and Trac.

Yeah basically any cool openware Source Control.

Subversion all the way ;)
Wonderful little app, particularly when combined with TortoiseSVN.
Even better when you can run one of these as a subversion server... ;)


Not tried Trac (but am looking at it now ;) )

Second recomendation for Subversion. We used it on a very big projects with around 15-20gb of data if you checked out everything (both binary and ASCII files). Held up very nicely. We had people working at several different locations over the internet too.

There is a Windows interface called Tortoise, which can be nice for the command line shy. :-)

Ragnar

hmm, sounds cool. The windows interface might speed things up and make it easier...

Subversion and Trac here too. Noel, have you got Trac running off Apache2 and svn running through webDAV, and if you do, is setting it up that way worth the hassle of having to change things around?

Yeah Tortoise SVN is pretty cool for Windows, SmartSVN for the rest of us.