[Update: this had the wrong tag to get on Planet Drupal]

The importance of project management tools is almost never fully appreciated. I am shocked at how common it is for a group of developers to go working without version control, ticket tracking, development documentation and so on.

For those of you who haven't read the drupal.org front page post yet, DROP is a new program that encourages and helps pe

Note: This post assumes that you are aware of the Google Highly Open Participation Contest. If not, see that link.