As we’ve done for other projects, we’ve chosen to use Trac for project tracking. Trac is easy to install, not too difficult to configure (although I think it could be easier), and doesn’t get in the way too much. You can access the project tracker right from the menu on this page, underneath the project name, which is of course Arcanoria: Dungeon of the Dead.
Trac gives us the following features which we’ll take advantage of on this project:
- Publicly viewable bug and enhancement lists. I’ve gone ahead and put a few items (known as “tickets”) in from the todo list, and will try to keep it current as we continue to move forward. Ticket creation can be done by team members (including pre-release testers, once we’re at that point).
- Trac creates online reports to summarize the tickets and organize them in various ways, such as by project milestone.
- Tickets can be prioritized, assigned to a team member, and can contain issue-specific discussions or media.
- Trac also provides an embedded Wiki for public documentation. There is nothing in there currently, but it may be useful in the future for game meta-information that we don’t want to keep on the main website here.
- SVN linkage, showing our source code repository for this project (this is not populated yet, but will be soon). As this is a private project the source code will not be publicly viewable, but team members will have access to this by using their secured login information.