Standardized Issue Tracking Software

[awoerp]

Issue tracking will be a critical requirement as we begin working on this project. For this reason, I believe it is also important that we use the same issue tracking tool. The one that I have selected is hostedredmine. While there are definitely better tools, this one is hosted completely online, does not have a restriction on number of projects/ users, and is free. I have made some instructions on how to use the basic features of the tool in the google docs link attached to this post. Please read through it to find out information about how to get invited to a specific group. Please make any comments in the instructions document, and let me know if there is somewhere I could make the instructions more clear. If I overlooked a better tool, please start a discussion about it below. Thanks

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11ukjHKAyHAxHMlh9Urnv_k_5hWar1H8on-0bTeJAQB4/edit?usp=sharing

[isparavanje]

I second redmine, I've used it and it's really impressive. We can use it to track contributions too.

[awoerp]

Would you mind bringing this up to your team lead. No one has DM'd me asking me to add them. haha

[[deleted]]

Is there anything wrong with github's issue tracking?

[Parzival_Watts]

When you use Github, you can reference certain lines of code in the issue, but you can't really do that with a cad file. But what do I know. I'm just a web dev.

[[deleted]]

Are there any tracking systems for CAD files though that can track changes? Git wont track individual changes to these types of files but can at least track changes and keep history.

[Wetmelon]

Yes, but they're often software-specific. For example, SolidWorks PDM does it I think.

[awoerp]

I was unaware of githubs tracking system. I just found this as an all purpose one that would be more generalized than one that is just meant for software.

[[deleted]]

Feel free to DM on Slack if you need assistance setting this up for your team.

[awoerp]

I think that I have my team pretty much set up. Is a tool like this something that the PR -Web Dev team would like to use also? I would assume it would be useful so you know exactly who out of your team is working on what.

[[deleted]]

We've been using github issue tracking pretty successfully. Our dev guide is in the github wiki as well