Open Source Project Infrastructure?

cpfeifer asks: "Russ Miles wrote about going through the pain of setting up his own infrastructure for his OSS project, AspectXML. He asks: 'Are there tools out there that make this process much easier, and perhaps ones that I could take advantage of by moving my own open source project to? Also what experiences have people had with the different community projects?' Should you start up your own gforge server, host it on Sourceforge, or perhaps look to one of the OSS groups like Apache, Codehaus or Tigris?"

Comments

Use the simplest tools that work.

[Godeke]

I have set up the following tools and had good luck for internal projects (assuming you want to use the LAMP model):

Mantis for the bug tracker. I use a downlevel, modified version (based on the 0.15.x version). Simple to use, which is the most important feature.
http://www.mantisbt.org/

PHPWiki for notes and design discussions. Very handy to be able to spell out the design of a module, get feedback and have history available (especially useful to prove who made the design change).
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/

Finally a good discussion board. We used PHPBB fine, except the patch of the week that was required for security for a while...
http://www.phpbb.com/

I was originally worried about intregration, but it turned out that hyperlinks were sufficent to reference back and forth (for example, to reference a discussion in the BB from a bug).