Collaborative web site for engineering development

It is always hard to separate personal likes and dislikes from decisions and observations. In this case I do have a strong desire to solve a perceived problem that not all of us perceive as a problem. I work with engineers who consider vi the only tool needed for programing and go out of their way to avoid simple productivity improvement tools such as Delphi and MS Visual Studio. For them productivity improvement is not an issue.
Many great engineering projects were done long before we all became addicted to word processors, spreadsheets, and scheduling software. So it is certainly true that the right people can always get the job done with whatever rock they have at hand.
However, the whole concept behind modern management approaches is to be able to do the job when you don't have the perfect people on it. This means procedures, practices, and standards that are used across the board. What you are describing would be a SEI level 1 organization http://www.sei.cmu.edu/>.
I think that we should try for a little bit more.
Mitchell James

Bill wrote: I think you simply want to host the site. I have done requirements
capture at sourceforge. Its simple. One person is in charge of the
documents called "Requirements" kept in the documents repository. This
person reads and classifies the requests from the email lists, and
issues an RFC once a month for the new requirements. If there is no
objections the new requirements are added as addendums to the original
document.
My experience is the successful completion of a project has everything
to do with the people on the team and nothing to do with the tools
available.
Bill