Project HQ

Well, I've successfully added uploading of attachments to tickets. You can even add additional attachments by updating the ticket. In addition to that, if you upload source code, it is viewable and it's syntax is even highlighted.

At the moment only HTML, PHP, CSS, Python, Perl, Ruby, Javascript and Pascal are supported, but I'm busy working on supporting more languages.

I've updated the demo for those who want to play around with it, and I'll release an egg file once I've done a little more testing and bug fixing.

Well, after a weekend of hacking, I have some basic ticketing working. You can see what I've done on the demo site.

At this stage you can't upload attachments, but that's the next step. After I've sorted that out, I'll be implementing the e-mail notification system, which will notify you of anything assigned to you, or anything you create or edit.

I've also "wikified" a number of the text fields, so you can put wiki text into some of the description fields, and it will be rendered correctly.

The last 2 weeks I've managed to get some time to work on Project HQ, and I've made a start on the ticketing part of it. Folks will be able to do their bug tracking in Project HQ at the end of this.

At the moment I've got the adding of tickets working. The next part to get working is viewing/updating. I've modeled the ticketing mostly after a combination of Trac and Launchpad, while taking a little inspiration from other issue tracking software like RT and the commercial JIRA (which we use at my day job).

For me, a project management system is not complete without a bug tracking system. So my next step is to implement bug tracking in Project HQ. I've looked at a few bug/issue tracking systems, and I've decided to model mine after the one in Trac.

So far, I have completed the database design, and my next step is to start implementing the bug tracking in Project HQ. Thanks to SQLAlchemy I don't have to actually worry about creating the tables, as they are created when I do a "web setup."

If you're new to this site, then you, like a number of other folks, are probably thinking, "Why is he wasting his time writing yet another project management system? Aren't there already more than enough around?" Well, I'm going to try to answer that question as best as I can...

In using a variety of project management systems, both open source and proprietary, I've come across a few basic types of software: time tracking, time management, task management, and issue tracking. For me, however, none of these types is proper project management.