Trac is a web-based software project management and bug/issue tracking system developed by the guys at Edgewall. It provides an interface to Subversion and an integrated wiki.

In response to popular demand (OK, one person who said yes when I asked) I have created a VMWare appliance so people can try out Trac easily.

Last year I was involved in a project where I needed to get an application built quickly with a team of five people based in the UK. This was going to be hard, but I knew that we had a base in Malaysia with some talented guys there, one of whom had worked on-site on one of our previous jobs. As we were delivering a fixed-price project and the guys working in Malaysia would cost a lot less per day than the UK-based team, the decision to use them seemed obvious.

That's the basic premise around outsourcing and that's why everyone's doing it, right?