Release Management software

[poffle]

Howzit,

So i am busy researching release management and some decent tools/software to use. I tried with excel but the amount of projects + environments will make that a living hell.
I've come across a few that are lekker like Xebialabs, Aha but they are way out of our budget ($10,000 and $700). I've also looked at a few task managers (Asanda, YouTrack, tello) which could do the job but are just lacking features i would like. VS Team services didn't really appeal to me compared to the other ones.

All i want is to for a release manager to have control over where the code is. This isn't to be confused with project management, the purpose of this isn't to set deadlines etc, just for the management of code.

Anyone have any nice tools they use that are budget friendly or even free?

 

[krycor]

Redmine s a free and open source, web-based project management and issue tracking tool. It allows users to manage multiple projects and associated subprojects. It features per project wikis and forums, time tracking, and flexible role based access control. It includes a calendar and Gantt charts to aid visual representation of projects and their deadlines. Redmine integrates with various version control systems and includes a repository browser and diff viewer.

Gitlab i guess.. but most businesses these days go with Jira which is only really free for open source public projects.

For continuous, automated build & test you can use Jenkins which i guess could be configured to pull from repo, run pre-defined test and then upload to a site like redmine as a report on how te build did vs various tests and this would be completely automated.

 

[poffle]

Thanks! i'll check it out

 

[krycor]

If you combine this with something like Docker [software container distributor for application] then u can even release to client automatically and continously as you develop code.. this i guess would be applicable to SaaS type applications.

PS. If at a later stage the organisation moves to use Jira.. There is a way to import Redmine into Jira.