OpenProject

Open Project is a network- based project collaboration system for the team- and inter-site collaboration in projects. This open source application is released under the GNU General Public License Version 3, and is continually being refined by the developer community. In addition to numerous smaller installations, in part, there are also very large installations in large organizations with more than 2,500 projects.

Functions

Open Project Foundation

The Open Project Foundation was founded by developers and users of open Project launched in October 2012. After the founding meeting of the Association in April 2013 he was registered (VR 32487 ) in June in the register of the local court of Charlottenburg. The association provides an organizational framework for technical decisions as well as the stabilization and accelerate the development of a full-time development team, funded by the members of the Open Project Foundation. Since its inception, the development speed and the number of developers of open Project exceeds that of Redmine. The association has set the following objectives:

The Association pursues its own economic goals.

History

The open- source project has been driven since 2010 in parallel with Chili Project. In October 2012, the official Fork was made under the name Open Project .. rationale for the Fork were desired by the founding members of high load and safety requirements, which would in Redmine and Chili Project as a plugin only insufficiently or too high effort can be implemented and maintained so

  • Limiting the session duration,
  • Time limit on the validity of passwords,
  • Definition of minimum requirements on the length and complexity of passwords.

In the first development phase these security and privacy requirements could be implemented.

Even extensive legal requirements of accessibility have been met, what profound adaptations of the user interfaces made ​​it necessary, for example for the use of Open Project by blind or motor- impaired users.

Recent Developments and Outlook

The development is based on the model development process Scrum. The current time planning and development roadmap can be viewed and discussed at the development platform. In addition to the development of new functions, the following technical objectives as part of a refactoring:

  • Merging of tickets and planning elements in the common class work packages
  • Removing the Module " Files" and "Documents" from the application core ( these functions can then be installed as plugins if necessary. )

Award

Open Project in August 2011 at the open-source competition of the Technology Foundation Berlin " Berlin's future is open" won in the category "Best practice example " 1st prize.

References

  • Http://openproject.org
  • Https://github.com/opf/openproject/
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