I’ve been thinking a lot lately on how you (the developer community) and SugarCRM can work closer together.  We’ve come up with a few ideas that we’re working on here at Sugar.

For starters, I want to revamp SugarForge.  There are some features that I want and they do not currently exist.  My inspiration has come from sites I have been using lately – GitHub, BitBucket, and LaunchPad. I have also been playing with Trac a lot.  What all of these have in common is excellent source control and wikis. I also particularly like the project management & issue tracking available from Trac.

I don’t think its possible (or even wise) to replace SugarForge with any of the above mentioned developer collaboration services.  However, I do think we have some options.  These are the few that I have identified:

• Redmine
• gForge
• Trac (does not do multiple projects)

Is there any software collaboration suites that you think would be perfect for SugarForge 2.0?  Right now I’m leaning towards gForge because it’s PHP and SugarForge is already gForge based.  It looks like they’ve done some major updates since we initially started SugarForge.

If you have any other ideas that will help SugarCRM collaborate with you better PLEASE let me know. You can often find me hanging out in the IRC #sugarcrm channel (nick: roder).  That’s irc.freenode.net in channel #sugarcrm.

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