"project management"

[Daniel Carrera]

Hello,

I have to ask a question that is only slightly related to Bazaar, and is 
vague, but I've exhausted Google and Wikipedia.

I'm wondering if there is some sort of project management tool, kind of 
like Trac or Launchpad, with the following features:

1) Preferably use bzr in the backend. I don't like subversion.
2) Allows multiple projects. Projects are easy to find.
3) Easy for me to manage.
4) Easy enough for an  idiot to use (I expect that some idiots will).
5) Users can upload files even if they don't have bzr installed.
6) I don't have to manage user accounts.


This is the basic problem I have:

My boss wants to have a place where senior high school students can 
upload their little software projects as part of the process of learning 
how to program in a simple language (JavaScript, Python, etc). He 
expects that some of these might be honestly valuable (e.g. a game to 
teach math to younger kids). He also expects that some teachers who 
taught themselves programming might add something useful.

As you can see, the audience here is people who do *not* have much 
experience with programming or SCMs. Another problem is that some 
schools will not be willing to install anything on their computers.

My current solution is to ask users to simply make an account in our 
Drupal website and upload files to their directory. This isn't very 
organized, but at least its simple. My boss, however, is not happy with 
this and *he* wants to make a public FTP account where anyone can go in 
and upload files. I am terrified at the security implications of this.

I hope this gives you an idea of the broad problem we are trying to 
solve. It'd be nice for software projects to be at least minimally 
organized so you can actually find stuff. It should be easy enough for 
students. Ideally it would benefit from having bzr installed, but it 
should still be able to function if it isn't.

I also don't want to spend a lot of time managing this. My job is to 
write software, not to play sysadmin.

I have no idea if anything like this exists. The closest thing I can 
think of is Launchpad. It seems to basically have all the basic 
features, though Launchpad was designed with a different problem in 
mind. I'm wondering if anyone can think of an alternative I should consider.

Thank you for your time.

Cheers,
Daniel.