Sorry for the OT... I'm looking for some software to fill a fairly specific set of requirements. I'm not necessarily looking for project software, but it seems like the closest to match what I need. I'm also not tied into open source or free. If anyone knows of any software that might fill these requirements I would appreciate it. Here's what I'm looking for: 1) Web enabled application 2) File storage - need to stare a large amount of large cad files - be able to categorize file storage (not one large list) - keep different revisions of files with some kind of notes - be able to search files (at least include names in a search) 3) Task - assign and keep track of tasks (searchable) 4) Store meeting notes and minutes (searchable) 5) Would like to support LDAP 6) Extension on file storage - since we'll be storing a large files and many of our users are across a WAN we'd like to sync/mirror the files to a few different servers. I'm not sure how we'd control how the users get the "closest" server but.... I found dotproject on sourceforge. It fills some of the needs, but it's file storage appears to be one large list, doesn't appear to support LDAP, and I don't see much for searching. Anyone know of software that might do these things? Thanks, James
James: I wonder if you can do this in two pieces: 1. Dotproject for the project management 2. Subversion for the file storage and revision tracking. Subversion has the ability to keep synchronized repositories in different locations. You would have to write to the primary repository but can read from any of the synced repositories. We host synced repos for our clients in our geographically separated data centers. Then, it looks like all you would be missing would be the LDAP integration which someone could add to dotproject since it is open source. We can probably develop that for you. Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask me about our geographically redundant database system.> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of James Pifer > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:37 PM > To: CentOS > Subject: [CentOS] OT: Web "Project" type software > > Sorry for the OT... I'm looking for some software to fill a fairly > specific set of requirements. I'm not necessarily looking for project > software, but it seems like the closest to match what I need. I'm also > not tied into open source or free. If anyone knows of any > software that > might fill these requirements I would appreciate it. > > Here's what I'm looking for: > > 1) Web enabled application > 2) File storage > - need to stare a large amount of large cad files > - be able to categorize file storage (not one large list) > - keep different revisions of files with some kind of notes > - be able to search files (at least include names in a search) > 3) Task - assign and keep track of tasks (searchable) > 4) Store meeting notes and minutes (searchable) > 5) Would like to support LDAP > 6) Extension on file storage - since we'll be storing a large > files and > many of our users are across a WAN we'd like to sync/mirror > the files to > a few different servers. I'm not sure how we'd control how > the users get > the "closest" server but.... > > I found dotproject on sourceforge. It fills some of the > needs, but it's > file storage appears to be one large list, doesn't appear to support > LDAP, and I don't see much for searching. > > Anyone know of software that might do these things? > > Thanks, > James > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
James Pifer wrote:><snip> > 1) Web enabled application > 2) File storage > - need to stare a large amount of large cad files > - be able to categorize file storage (not one large list) > - keep different revisions of files with some kind of notes > - be able to search files (at least include names in a search) > 3) Task - assign and keep track of tasks (searchable) > 4) Store meeting notes and minutes (searchable) > 5) Would like to support LDAP > 6) Extension on file storage - since we'll be storing a large files and > many of our users are across a WAN we'd like to sync/mirror the files to > a few different servers. I'm not sure how we'd control how the users get > the "closest" server but.... > > I found dotproject on sourceforge. It fills some of the needs, but it's > file storage appears to be one large list, doesn't appear to support > LDAP, and I don't see much for searching. > > Anyone know of software that might do these things? > > Thanks, > James > > >Have you considered using Wiki software such as PMWiki, Twiki, or MediaWiki? We do some of this with Twiki and use Apache's auth tied in to LDAP. - Ryan Pugatch Systems Administrator, TripAdvisor BS/IT student, Northeastern University
> -----Original Message----- > Subject: [CentOS] OT: Web "Project" type software > > Sorry for the OT... I'm looking for some software to fill a > fairly specific set of requirements. I'm not necessarily > looking for project software, but it seems like the closest > to match what I need. I'm also not tied into open source or > free. If anyone knows of any software that might fill these > requirements I would appreciate it. > > Here's what I'm looking for: > > 1) Web enabled application > 2) File storage > - need to stare a large amount of large cad files > - be able to categorize file storage (not one large list) > - keep different revisions of files with some kind of notes > - be able to search files (at least include names in a search) > 3) Task - assign and keep track of tasks (searchable) > 4) Store meeting notes and minutes (searchable) > 5) Would like to support LDAP > 6) Extension on file storage - since we'll be storing a large > files and many of our users are across a WAN we'd like to > sync/mirror the files to a few different servers. I'm not > sure how we'd control how the users get the "closest" server but.... > > I found dotproject on sourceforge. It fills some of the > needs, but it's file storage appears to be one large list, > doesn't appear to support LDAP, and I don't see much for searching. > > Anyone know of software that might do these things? > > Thanks, > James >Have you looked at something like Alfresco? Andrew
James Pifer wrote:> Sorry for the OT... I'm looking for some software to fill a fairly > specific set of requirements. I'm not necessarily looking for project > software, but it seems like the closest to match what I need. I'm also > not tied into open source or free. If anyone knows of any software that > might fill these requirements I would appreciate it. > > Here's what I'm looking for: > > 1) Web enabled application > 2) File storage > - need to stare a large amount of large cad files > - be able to categorize file storage (not one large list) > - keep different revisions of files with some kind of notes > - be able to search files (at least include names in a search) > 3) Task - assign and keep track of tasks (searchable) > 4) Store meeting notes and minutes (searchable) > 5) Would like to support LDAP > 6) Extension on file storage - since we'll be storing a large files and > many of our users are across a WAN we'd like to sync/mirror the files to > a few different servers. I'm not sure how we'd control how the users get > the "closest" server but.... > > I found dotproject on sourceforge. It fills some of the needs, but it's > file storage appears to be one large list, doesn't appear to support > LDAP, and I don't see much for searching. > > Anyone know of software that might do these things?I'd start with subversion for the storage/versioning and remote file access functionality and trac for a fairly close-coupled wiki and project management tool (or you could look at the commercial TestTrackPro). You should be able to be able to configure both to use any of apache's authentication methods, including LDAP. Subversion doesn't like multiple copies of repositories, but since version 1.5 it is possible to set it up so commit access is redirected to a master instance but this can sync to multiple copies that can be used locally for read access. But, performance is generally fairly good even with remote access to a single repository so you might not need that. The only real caveat here is that it is extremely difficult to ever remove anything that has been committed to a subversion repository so you might want to start with several separate repositories to keep their sizes manageable if there are some logical categories where that would make sense. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
On Wed Jul 15 18:37:03 UTC 2009, James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com wrote:> Sorry for the OT... I'm looking for some software to fill a > fairly specific set of requirements. I'm not necessarily looking > for project software, but it seems like the closest to match what > I need. I'm also not tied into open source or free. If anyone > knows of any software that might fill these requirements I would > appreciate it.I am building a fairly sizable dbms based project and I started out with subversion as the SCM and Trac as the PAS. Last year I switched the project to Git and Redmine respectively. Both are open source. Git is the Linux kernel maintainers' SCM system and was initially designed and written by LT himself to replace BitKeeper. It is a completely distributed SCM and is very easy to use, albeit not so easy to learn or understand.> Here's what I'm looking for:> 1) Web enabled applicationRedmine is 100% Ruby and Rails, totally web based. It supports Git repositories out of the box. Git is a combination of scripts and C programs. It is available for Linux, Microsoft and several other OS platforms. Repository structure is identical for all platforms although differs in implementation details. On MicroSoft environments I hold that Git is best hosted under a cygwin instance, although a native port does exist.> 2) File storage- need to stare a large amount of large cad files - be able to categorize file storage (not one large list) - keep different revisions of files with some kind of notes - be able to search files (at least include names in a search) Remine uses the underlying fs for file storage and provides the metadata for search. Files can be placed into a document list or attached to individual wiki pages. A description can be provided upon creation, although at present there seems no supported way of editing an existing description. Redmine supports full test searching. However, Git is by far and away the best solution to the problem of large file storage. Redmine can index a Git repository and track individual change sets. Therefore, Git + Redmine will give you most, if not all, of what you ask for.> 3) Task - assign and keep track of tasks (searchable)Redmine supports multiple projects and sub-projects in a single instance. Issues may be related to one another. Users may be assigned differing roles on different projects. Different projects can have different categories and statuses. The DBMS backend is PostgrSQl so any report writer with an SQL backend should be able to provide whatever reports that you have the data to drive.> 4) Store meeting notes and minutes (searchable)In addition to issue tracking and file storage, Redmine provides both project specific wikis and web forums. Access to either can be controlled on a project/user basis. The full text search facility covers both. It also has time logging and a slew of other features.> 5) Would like to support LDAPI believe that Redmine does, but I do not use this myself so I cannot be sure. Git is a filesystem, it has its own network transfer protocol which is very fast and completely insecure. It also supports transfer over http, very slow and insecure, and ssh, acceptable speed and secure transfer.> 6) Extension on file storage - since we'll be storing a large files > and many of our users are across a WAN we'd like to sync/mirror > the files to a few different servers. I'm not sure how we'd control > how the users get the "closest" server but....If you use Git instead of Redmine for your large file store then each user gets a complete repository the first time that they pull (clone actually) from the remote, including all the source changes to initialisation. Thereafter they only get the diff objects. Git uses a very efficient storage mech. that basically only passes compressed diffs of file contents. It uses MD5 hashes of file contents to identify change sets so that if you rename a file or merge two into one it can track these events and avoid duplicate storage. I use a cron scheduled git pull over ssh to maintain a remote copy of our base repository and the traffic created is negligible even after large commits. If the Git repository containing those files is bound to your Redmine project then you can search the files therein through Redmine and compare diffs across multiple versions. Of course, nothing is going to help much with binary data files. HTH -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3