OpenForge

OpenForge

OpenForge is project management and collaborate platform that helps you manage the entire development life cycle.

OpenForge based on EmForge. Written using Java, it is cross-platform and cross-database.

OpenForge is open source and released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

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Overview

• Multiple projects support
• Flexible role based access control.
• Flexible issue tracking system
• Gantt chart and calendar
• News, documents & files management
• Feeds & email notifications.
• Per project wiki
• Per project forums
• Simple time tracking functionality
• Custom fields for issues, projects and users
• SCM integration (SVN, CVS, Mercurial, Bazaar and Darcs)
• Multiple LDAP authentication support
• User self-registration support
• Multilanguage support
• Multiple databases support

Technologies

OpenForge Technology Matrix

• Spring Framework - is a glue for whole project. It is used for linking different components all-together;
• Hibernate - used for database access. Currently we are working with followed databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Acegi Security - for authentication/authorization implementation in whole application; LDAP is used for storing user-related information;

For implementing internal services:

• jBPM - as Workflow-Engine;

OpenForge Project Structure

• JSPWiki - as Wiki-Engine. It is used for storing text-based information;
• JasperReports - for reporting;
• For implementing external interfaces: Apache CXF for Web-Services Implementation and Apache XML-RPC for Xml-RPC protocol implementation;
• JSF Products Family for GUI Implementation.Currently we are using followed implementations and extra-libraries: JBoss RichFaces Apache implementation of JSF and Facelets - templating Engine for JSF;
• Maven SCM for integration with external Version Control Systems. Currently followde SCM supported: Subversion, CVS, Mercurial;

Plugins

• Google Calendar is a simple plugin to include Google Calendar iframe as a tab within Redmine projects.
• Project Scores is plugin which will let a user score a project on different criteria.
• Simple CI is a generic plugin for integrating per project RSS continuous integration feeds (eg. CruiseControl) in Redmine.
• Timesheet is plugin to show and filter timelogs across all projects in Redmine.

Links

• http://www.huihoo.org/openforge/

References

• http://www.basecamphq.com/ Project management, collaboration, and task software
• http://github.com/ Secure Git hosting and collaborative development
• https://launchpad.net/ Launchpad is a free software hosting and development website. We make it easy to collaborate across multiple projects. 其中托管了Ubuntu的开发服务: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu
• http://www.ohloh.net/
• http://kenai.com/