Jeremy Davis's picture

Hi Bill

TBH, most of the current TurnKey appliances tagged with "Project Management" (i.e. these ones) are more aimed at software development "project management". E.g. GitLab, Gitea, Redmine and Trac. GitLab is pretty popular in this space, but personally I much prefer Gitea. It's not as feature full as GitLab, but is much lighter weight and simpler to use IMO (and does everything that I need).

If the Projects you are planning to manage aren't software projects, then I suspect that none of those are really what you want. iceScrum does not tie so tightly into the software dev management mindset, but is around Scrum methodology, so is still primary focused on software dev.

I doubt that Sahana Eden would be of much value to you (unless of course you are planning emergency response). Tracks is more a personal "to do" manager (and is somewhat abandonware, although apparently they're attempting to reinvigorate the project). So that only leaves ProcessMaker and Collabtive. FWIW, I've never used either, so can't really provide any perspective from a user. Processmaker seems pretty heavy weight and I'm not sure how applicable it would be to your desires for project management. Although it is relatively popular. On face value at least, Collabtive seems like it may be a possibility, but it's not all that popular, so I can't really speak to how useful it might be.

So depending on what your explicit needs are, it's quite possible that we don't have an appliance that provides what you are after... But if you're feeling adventurous, then there are a number of quite good looking pieces of "web hosted" project management software, that TurnKey doesn't currently provide. Here are a few that I've looked at (some I've installed and tested out):

  • Wekan - a kanban card board somewhat like Trello.
  • OpenProject - a web hosted Collaborative Project Management suite.
  • Goodwork - is primarily focused on software development, but it does look like quite an interesting piece of software; claiming to be "project management and collaboration tool inspired by basecamp".
  • PHProject - again appears to be primarily focused on software development, but could still be of value?

So you could try installing any of these on a suitable base TurnKey appliance (obviously the PHP based ones would best go on the LAMP appliance, the others would depend on the particular software language they use and their requirements). If you were to install them yourself and document the process, then that would push ahead the likelihood of TurnKey providing them in the future. Although, if you really want to see a new appliance, then you are encouraged to develop the build code.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and what direction you might be planning to go. I hope that's of some value to you?! :) If you do investigate the option of not suing one of the existing apps and instead installing a particular piece of software on a TurnKey base, please feel free to ask any questions and I'll do my best to at least head you in the right direction.