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On 6/24/06, James Edward Gray II <james / grayproductions.net> wrote:
>
> On Jun 24, 2006, at 2:00 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>
> > James Britt wrote:
> >> :)
> >>
> >> Replace "Could we just have ..." with "I'm going to prototype ... "
> >> and see it it still sounds like a good idea.
> >>
> >> (BTW, I can imagine how something like that might work, but for very
> >> slippery values of @something, @that and @work.  And a little voice
> >> going, "Yeah, but ...")
> > Hmmm ... why not something "more agile" than GForge? I've always been
> > overwhelmed by all the "features" in GForge. How many projects are big
> > enough to use them? For that matter, how many projects on RubyForge
> > have
> > more than, say, three developers?
> >
> > The closest I've seen to what I'd call an "agile" software project
> > management web app is Trac ... but *that's* in Python, right? :(
>
> Amen brother, amen!
>
> I think sometimes a little reinvention can be a healthy thing.  You
> get to rethink the elements that make something what it is.
>
> Obviously Trac is missing a couple of things needed to replace
> GForge, but I agree that it's a lot closer to my ideal.
>
> James Edward Gray II


It wouldn't need to be done from scratch, Bounty Source is written in Rails
and has been open sourced:

   https://www.bountysource.com/

Curt

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