KanbanOnRails' Meta-Project

My current work related project is KanbanOnRails.

It's home page contains pretty much every thing you could want to know about the project but doesn't explain the meta-project at all. So I thought I'd do that here...

It turns out that I've stumbled into using a rather odd assortment of tools and services to manage this project, but it's working well, so I thought I'd share the recipe here.

I'm using Bazaar for revision control, Launchpad for project managment and Google Docs for most of the actual content.

There's really only two SCM tools out there that I would consider using right now; Bazaar and Git. I'm firmly sold on distributed SCM and from what I've seen so far these two have the brightest future.

I've decided to use Bazaar for this project and to try Git out on the next.

Distributed SCMs work best if you have some public web space available to share branches, with, mine's here.

I've generally preferred using Trac for project management in the past, it's a fabulous tool, but this time I wanted a third party host that could provide a permanent home for the project. That really only left me with one choice, Launchpad, which natively uses Bazaar. Currently none of the other project hosting services; SourceForge, RubyForge, Google Code, etc... support any form of distributed SCM.

I would of prefered a good reliable (free) public wiki for content hosting but wasn't immediately aware of one so I decided to use Google Docs. This is the most likely part of the recipe to change if Google's Wiki is ever released or I find a good alternative.