Feature overview / #3407

What Streber is good at

It's free

• Streber is a free open source project and will be updated by a community of interested developers of whom most use the tool for their own work.
• It is been released under GPL without any cost to those who use the software.

It's easy

• You don't need any programming-background to install, set-up and use Streber. Its graphical interface is easy and self explanatory. You can however - adjust it to you own needs.
• It is available in many languages:
  • German
  • French
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Slovak
  • Norwegian
  • Swedish
  • Italian
  • Spanish
  • Russian
  • Hungarian

New standards

• We focus on decent web technology (Firefox, MS Internet Explorer 6, Konqueror, Safari, Opera), mature object oriented programming with php5 and W3C standards like CSS2 and DOM-html.
• Use interface-features you might not expect from a web-interface: Right mouse-button brings up context-menus. Navigation can be done with keyboard.

It makes visible what you want to show

• Streber´s user-rights system is based on visibility and project roles. For example:
  • Clients might only see published items and can only "suggest" or "request" new items which are seen and edited by project-managers.
  • Normal team-members only see relevant and private items.
• Roles are assigned for each project.
• User-rights can be fine-tuned for each team-member.
• At "home" each user sees a list of recent relevant changes: new tasks, members, comments.
• Users and Clients only see People who are related to them. If you have several projects on one server, team members will only see projects and people they are related to. read more

Organize

• Streber provides many ways to organize your information
  • Tasks can have project-specific labels and categories.
  • Tasks can be grouped hierarchically.
  • Tasks can have required tasks.
  • Tasks can be extended by issue-reports and linked to project-versions.
  • Tasks can be grouped to mile-stones and groups.
• Booking time-efforts is possible with a maximum of three clicks.
• People and Companies can be tagged with categories (clients, freelancers, etc)

Other features

• Version controlled upload of files
• Advanced Formatting with Wiki Syntax
• Complete change history of anything
• Notification mails on changes

Missing Features:

• reports (planned)
• Calendar (planned)
• Gantt charts
• Costs of resources, tasks, persons for project

What Streber is not:

• It's not LotusNotes. We are targeting to small open minded teams with 1 to 40 users. If you are IBM you will probably have to write your own solution.
• It's not Trac: Streber not entirely focused on handling programming projects. It still has no API, cvs or Subversion plug ins. If you only need to manage one software project without controlling efforts and companies we can recommend trac.edgewall.org/
• It's not mediaWiki nor joomla: Streber is not performance driven. It will be fast enough for most projects and intranet sites, but it does not feature caching of rendered pages or other performance optimizations.
• It's not AlienBrain: Uploading of files is — like with most browser applications — cumbersome. If you have thousands of files and need performance, use AlienBrain.