Linux ToDo List for 6.3.7

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I've been asked to get the ToDo application working so that a lot of general admin ToDo can be easily managed amongst a dispersed group.

Two of the people use only Windows.

Two of us do not even own any products by Microsoft, let alone have a machine running their OS.

It appears there is Linux ToDo, but things seem fairly disconnected and I cannot be sure if I install the ToDo 6.3.7 on the Windows users machine, set up an ftp site on one of our linux servers and then set up the Linux ToDo for the other two of us... if it is actually going to work.

Could some one let me know if I will be able to get a workable collaboration tool up and running or is this likely to be an endless series of incompatibilities?

Posted 12-Nov-11 12:42pm

Dale Amon

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-11-12T13:11:00

The only problem I can see is that just the "To Do" application features would be too miserable to bother about implementation of collaboration on more than one kind of system.

Anyway, if you install some well-known RDBMS on Linux or Windows, it can access the database in transactional manner on all kind of systems; likewise, if you implement a Web Service on Linux or Windows, you can access it on all kind of systems. Also, if you install Mono on Linux and .NET on Windows, you can develop collaboration software using classical .NET remoting of WCF which would work transparently on all systems. Finally, if you develop a Web application of one kind of system, presumably using 3-tier architecture, the client software could be run an any of the popular Web browsers and hence be used on any system.

That said, there are no serious technical barriers to organize collaboration between different kinds of systems. In all cases, you just need a server and… development time. Again, the question is: does it make any sense to bother about development any software just for the "To Do" application.

In my opinion, it makes no practical sense at all. You can, and actually need to use much stronger system, such as project management and/or issue tracking system, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue_tracking_system[^], http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_tracking_system[^].

There is a number of robust multiplatform systems you can use. I would also require such system to be Open Source. See what choices you can have: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue_tracking_systems[^].

I personally would recommend to look at Trac, which is nearly minimalistic, but its benefits include Wiki technology and nice integration with Subversion, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trac[^],
http://trac.edgewall.org/[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion_%28software%29[^],
http://subversion.apache.org/[^].

I could also recommend Bugzilla, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugzilla[^],
http://www.bugzilla.org/[^].

—SA