Posted by C. G. Brown
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:12:00 GMT
We've made several additions to ProjectLocker Lite Trac recently to improve your experience. Here are some of the new features:
Plugins
We've installed the following plugins:
If there are other plugins that you think you and other customers may find useful, file a ticket with us and we'll install them, pending a security review and making sure they don't cause any issues. You can activate plugins that we have installed by going to the Admin menu in Trac itself.
Improved Subversion-Trac Interaction
We've installed the trac-contrib commit hook that allows you to cause action to occur on Trac tickets. If you use the right syntax, you can make commit messages leave comments on Trac tickets or even mark tickets as fixed just by doing a Subversion commit. The syntax is described in detail in the Support FAQ.
Trac Upgrade via Web
Installation of some plugins requires an upgrade of your Trac environment. After some customer feedback, we have added a link to run trac-admin upgrade from ProjectLocker Portal, so after installing the Tags or Discussions plugin, if your Trac instance indicates that it needs an upgrade, go to your Trac Service Properties for your project and click "Run trac-admin Upgrade". Your instance will upgrade itself on the spot and you can proceed with your work.
As always, we welcome your feedback on how we can make our service more useful for you.
Tags plugins, subversion, trac, upgrade | 2 comments
Posted by Damon Young
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:37:00 GMT
We love feedback.
So much so, we even have an e-mail address soley dedicated to receiving the thoughts of our clients, called, unsurprisingly, feedback@projectlocker.com.
At this moment in particular, we would love to hear from all of our current clients with your thoughts on our hosted Subversion service. What do you love? What do you love less? What would you like to see changed?
Send us an e-mail. Let us know what you think.
Tags clients, control, current, hosted, SCM, source, subversion, SVN, version | 3 comments
Posted by Damon Young
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:08:00 GMT
While we're very big proponents of Subversion here at ProjectLocker, we also recognize that even the best tools and, consequently, the teams that use them can be crippled by the wrong development processes. With that in mind, here is an excellent article by Henrik Kniberg, a Certified Scrum Master with Crisp, a Stockholm-based Agile consulting firm. In it, he proposes a methodology to most effectively make use of your version control tool when applying Agile best practices in an environment with multiple & distinct teams working from common code base. Notice that he never mentions a specific version control tool, just a set of procedures and team protocols to help optimize the process. More details at the link below:
"Version Control for Multiple Agile Teams"
Watch this blog for more posts in the future on best practices and other development resources we think will help you build better software.
Tags agile, best, development, hosted, lifecycle, practices, scrum, software, subversion, SVN | no comments | no trackbacks
Posted by C. G. Brown
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:11:00 GMT
We are happy to announce that ProjectLocker is now integrated with FogBugz issue tracking system. If you are currently a FogBugz customer, just go to Integration Settings in ProjectLocker, set the FogBugz settings based on the values in the Perl script they generate for you, and you're all set. ProjectLocker will notify FogBugz every time there is a commit message containing "BugzID: [bug ID #]" on a single line. Your commits show up as Checkins in FogBugz, and if you like, you can configure your site settings to point back to ProjectLocker's source browser.
We have also installed Hudora's Trac-FogBugz plugin for Trac, to provide a convenient link back to FogBugz. Just ask us and we can get you configured with that at no additional charge.
We are big fans of Trac here, but we understand that some customers need different features for issue management, have already chosen other tools, or just prefer other tools. We want to help our customers work in the way that's best for them. Keep telling us what products you are happiest with and that you'd like to use in conjunction with ProjectLocker's best in class Subversion hosting and Trac hosting. We're listening.
Tags commits, fogbugz, issue, subversion, tracking | 1 comment
Posted by C. G. Brown
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:08:00 GMT
We've just released an integration between ProjectLocker and Basecamp for those users who use Basecamp for project collaboration and have enabled the Basecamp API in their Basecamp account. ProjectLocker Subversion hosting users will be able to:
- Send commit messages from Subversion to Basecamp as Basecamp messages.
- Create new ProjectLocker projects from existing Basecamp project.
- Associate users in ProjectLocker with users in Basecamp, so that messages actually come from the committing user where possible.
If there are more ways that we can make communication between ProjectLocker and Basecamp more useful to you, please let us know. We are excited about our growing list of integrations and are always looking for more ways to make our services useful to you and the way you work. Of course, if you have any issues using the integration, don't hesitate to file a ticket, and our team will promptly resolve your problems.
Tags basecamp, commits, integrations, subversion | 2 comments | no trackbacks
