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dotProject
DotProject logo.png
Original author(s) William Ezell
Developer(s) dotProject development team
Initial release September 1, 2003 (2003-09-01) (1.0)[1]
Stable release

2.2.0  (March 12, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-03-12))

[±]
Preview release none [±]
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in Multi-lingual
Type Project management software
License(s) GNU General Public License v2.0
Website dotProject.net

dotProject is free web-based open-source project management software.

Product history

dotProject has its origins as a project started by and maintained by the entity dotMarketing.org in 2000.[2][2] An open-source SourceForge project was started for the software on February 28, 2001.[3] Initial development was a bit slow, potentially hindered by dotCMS, a web-based content management system being developed at around the same time. A stable version 1.0 release finally arrived on September 1, 2003.[1]

On January 12, 2004, project lead Adam Donnison announced long-time contributor Andrew Eddie would be moving off the project to pursue an opportunity developing the open-source Mambo content management system.[4] Despite the loss, work continued on the project, and version 2.0 of dotProject was released on March 31, 2005.[5]

In December 2007, a change to the Zend Framework was announced for a future version 3.0, though no timeframe was put on getting to 3.0.[6] The project was again promoted anew in an attempt to get closer to version 3.0. Those efforts in part were responsible for the flurry of activity that brought a Project of the Month award to dotProject in April 2009.[7] The next month, a clarification was made about the status of the move to version 3.0, with recognition of the slow timeline and the intent of potentially working more features into version 2.x first.[8] Since then several 2.x releases have occurred, but it remains unclear if a revised Zend-based version 3.0 will arrive.

Features

The features of dotProject include[2]:

  • user management
  • trouble ticket system
  • client management
  • project listings
  • hierarchical task list
  • file repository
  • contact list
  • calendar
  • forum support
  • resource-based permissions

Hardware/software requirements

Installation prerequisites can be found here, though they haven't been updated since 2010.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

  • A few screenshots of dotProject can be found on TMDHosting.
  • Information about a dotProject demo can be found on the site.

Entities using dotProject

Further reading

External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Version 1.0 Released". dotProject.net. 1 September 2003. http://www.dotproject.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4. Retrieved 26 December 2012. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Team: dotProject". dotProject.net. 12 March 2003. http://www.dotproject.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=5. Retrieved 26 December 2012.  Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "dPAbout" defined multiple times with different content
  3. "dotProject". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/dotproject/. Retrieved 26 December 2012. 
  4. Donnison, Adam J. (12 January 2004). "Long Term Contributor Takes a Break". dotProject.net. http://www.dotproject.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10. Retrieved 26 December 2012. 
  5. Chisholm, Karen (31 March 2005). "dotProject 2.0 Released". dotProject.net. http://www.dotproject.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=102. Retrieved 26 December 2012. 
  6. Donnison, Adam J. (14 December 2007). "dotProject Version 3". sakienvirotech.com. http://blogs.sakienvirotech.com/index.php/dotProject/2007/12/14/dotproject_version_3. Retrieved 26 December 2012. 
  7. "Project of the Month, April 2009". SourceForge. April 2009. http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-200904/. Retrieved 26 December 2012. 
  8. "dotProject 2.x and it's Future". sakienvirotech.com. 3 June 2009. http://blogs.sakienvirotech.com/index.php/dotProject/2009/06/03/dotproject-2-x-and-it-s-future. Retrieved 26 December 2012.