Need Input from Mod Teams.. Thread

I have been asked by several friends who are working on their own individual projects, whether they be mods or other programming-oriented tasks, to construct for them a web-based development environment for their team. I have accepted such a task and plan on developing it on a larger scale. I am actually hoping that this will become something that more than just a few friends take advantage of. Perhaps modification teams would find it helpful during their stages of development as well.

Anyway, I am looking for input as to what features teams would really like to have in a web-based development environment. Let me take you through the basics of what I have thus far. Each development environment (DE) is secured and hosted on a third party host server. Within this environment are the following features:

Team Bulletin Board
News and Announcements
Team Forum
Task Manager
Private Member Messaging System
Member Mailing List
Public Project Information Page
Support for Multiple Team Member Access Levels
File Revision System (web-based and small-scale CVS-like repository: more information below)
Public Website Content Management System (project news, project features, forum moderation, mailing list, etc.)

I have chosen to alter a content management system that I have already developed by adding some development-oriented features like the file revision system. From what I hear, there is not really a need for a full-scale repository when the size of a team, and the number of programmers in the team especially, is limited. Thus I have chosen to simply develop a revision control system where files can be uploaded, monitored, checked out, committed, viewed, and downloaded individually rather than as a larger entity.

This could also be useful in other development projects outside of modifications, but I thought I could find some good insight here. I would be willing to host and maintain a service like this free of charge as I have the resources to do so. I am sure many of you would have concerns and questions before utilizing such a service, and I hope to address any of those that you may have so that I can develop around them in order to satisfy the masses.

You may reply here, send me a PM, email me, or talk to me personally using my AIM SN.. IAmLammie05.

Thank you.

Michael Lammie

Calander and the ability to add deadlines to it would be useful.

A lot of that can already be done with groupware and other php programs.