Comments on: Cloning ActiveCollab

By: James

James — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:42:20 +0000

If only you had written it in php things would have gone differently.

By: Gantt Chart Software

Gantt Chart Software — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:59:45 +0000

Very good write up and thanks for mentioning RailsCollab – I hadn't heard about that one before.

By: Gantt Chart Software

Gantt Chart Software — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:59:45 +0000

Very good write up and thanks for mentioning RailsCollab – I hadn't heard about that one before.

By: Gaz

Gaz — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:14:27 +0000

Hi James,

Wow! I’m deeply impressed. If I’ve found anything about the OS community, it’s that there are way too many projects and way too few contributors :-(

Maybe you should host an installation on you server to get some users, and further down the line some of them will start handing you modest patches at first before getting more deeply involved?

Cheers,
Gary

By: James Urquhart

James Urquhart — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:14:27 +0000

Gaz,

Good idea, although RailsCollab by nature isn’t very multi-user friendly so i’m slightly reluctant with regard to hosting a demo.

Still, i guess it couldn’t hurt. Although i’m going to wait till i have time to plonk on a decent ruby rails installation on the box till i do anything further with it.

Thanks,

James

By: Ryan Doherty

Ryan Doherty — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:14:27 +0000

Sweet! I felt the same way when I heard ActiveCollab went commercial. We lost an awesome project management app in my opinion.

I’ve toyed with the idea too of creating a BaseCamp/ActiveCollab clone. There’s nothing too technically difficult about it, it’s just a lot of work :)

I did a little work for ActiveCollab, but I found their framework way to heavy and complex, Rails has spoiled me.

I’ll be honest, I’d love to work on it, but I just don’t have the time. I’m still glad to hear there are people out there with the same ideas!

By: Roland

Roland — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:14:27 +0000

There is another fork of activeCollab 0.71 called ProjectPier. I am one of currently 5 people working on that.

Right now we are collecting all 0.71 themes and translations and rebrand aC 0.71 to PP to PP 0.8 which will be our first version. Additionally we are working on a Drupal based website at http://drupal.projectpier.org to replace the (ugly) existing website at pp.org.

In the next version we like to enhance the tool and simplify it on it’s rough edges :-)

If you like to join, please contact us through the Drupal web site. You will be very welcome.

Cheers
Roland