Announcing Basie Version 0.5

We are very pleased to announce the release of Version 0.5 of Basie, a lightweight software project forge built on Django that borrows many ideas from Trac and DrProject. As this screencast shows, its features include:

• Multiple projects per forge
• Role-based access control and pluggable user account management
• Subversion repository browser
• Cross-component search
• Per-project wiki with standard WikiCreole syntax
• A simple ticketing system
• Web-based administration
• REST API for web services
• Available in English, Bulgarian, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, and Japanese
• Graphical dashboard showing project statistics and history (in beta)

Basie is still very much a work in progress (we picked “0.5” as a version number because we figure it’s halfway done :-) ), but we are very pleased with how it’s coming along, and invite anyone who is interested in trying it out, or helping with its development, to get in touch.