Announcing Basie Version 0.5

2009-08-25

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.