03.01.08
Software to build open source communities
I wonder why there is no real "community" software out there for open source software projects, especially if you want to have an integrated experience for a user.
If you look at big open source projects you have a diverse set of tools used for the websites. I compiled the following table based on looking at hints within the page or the page source codes, so it might be not correct:
| Tool | Issue-Tracking | Site-CMS | Forum/Mailinglist | Wiki | Blog | SourceCode/Binaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Framework | JIRA | Drupal | vBulletin/Mailinglist was at sourceforge but is retired | - | Wordpress | SourceForge |
| Hibernate | JIRA | coWiki | phpBB/mailman | (coWiki) | Seam based | JBoss/SourceForge |
| Apache (Struts) | JIRA | Maven-Generated | -/apache-mailinglists | Confluence | - | Apache |
| AppFuse | JIRA | Confluence | Nabble webinterface to mailinglist/via dev.java.net | Confluence | Confluence-News | java.net |
| SugarCRM | - | Mambo | vBulletin | MediaWiki | - | SourceForge |
| Sourceforge | own module | - | own/own | - | Only News-Function | SourceForge |
Beside JIRA being the de facto standard for issue tracking, the rest is a bit of a mess, and most of the selected open source communities are in the Java area. So what tools would you recommend for starting an open source project/community?
Currently I am looking at Confluence, Drupal, JIRA, TikiWiki and Trac. I guess we will have to use more than one tool to cover all, but I will try to limit it to as few tools as possible.
Any thoughts/help?
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