ProjectLocker Blog

Agilo for Equity Accounts

C. G. Brown — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:45:00 -0500

A number of our customers have requested access to Agile42's great product Agilo as an add-on to their ProjectLocker Trac. That day has arrived and we are now providing the option to create Agilo Trac projects included with all Equity and Enterprise accounts. With Agilo, you can manage your team using Agile/Scrum best practices, allowing your team to work more rapidly and communicate more effectively.

To use Agilo, Equity customers can simply go to Add Project, and select Agilo Trac as their issue manager type. If you'd like to turn an existing project into an Agilo project, just open a New Support Request in ProjectLocker Portal and our team will get your project converted as soon as possible. If you'd like to try Agilo and are on Seed, Angel, or Venture, you can upgrade by clicking the Upgrade Account link in Portal and following the instructions. Upgrades are also subject to the same 30-day money back guarantee, so if you aren't happy, we'll switch you back at no risk to you.

ProjectLocker is excited to continue to bring our customers the best-of-breed solutions for software development project management, and we hope that your teams find this product to be yet another way to take the tedium out of project management and to let you focus on what you do best — writing great software.

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Visual Studio Subversion Add-In

Runako Godfrey — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:18:00 -0600

Here's a quick bit of news for the many ProjectLocker users who work with Microsoft's Visual Studio as their primary development environment. A helpful ProjectLocker user recently gave us a pointer to the relatively new TortoiseSVN Addin for Visual Studio, which brings many Subversion functions right into your IDE (see the screenshots on the site). If you use Visual Studio for Subversion access, this may simplify your workflow somewhat. As you try it out, please keep in mind that it's in beta so it may not be appropriate for all settings.

The add-in is open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Downloadable Backup Subscriptions are Here

C. G. Brown — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:29:00 -0600

Many of our customers have expressed an interest in backing up their projects on a scheduled basis. We've had an archiving feature to back up customer projects for Enterprise customers for some time now, but we have now released scheduled backups to all of our customers. To access scheduled backups, just go to the Manage Subscriptions link in ProjectLocker Portal, on the left navigation bar under "Backup Links", choose the day of the week or day of the month you'd like and your projects, and confirm.

Monthly backups are just $5/month for unlimited projects. Weekly backups are $15/month for unlimited projects. All backups are kept at least 30 days, so you can download your backups to an off-site location of your choosing for additional peace of mind. If you just need an occasional backup, you can still use the Request Backups link to get your backup for a single project for just $2.50. However, if you find yourself requesting backups regularly, you can save money and time by scheduling a subscription. There's no contract, even if you're an annual or biannual subscriber, and you can cancel at any time.

We absolutely have not changed our policy regarding backups for disaster recovery. We continue to regularly back up all customer data internally to an encrypted, off-site location so that we can get you up and running in the event of a disaster on our side. Downloadable backups are just an additional convenience for customers who prefer to maintain their own copies of project data for historical/archiving reasons, or just as an additional measure of protection. In any case, you can continue to rely on ProjectLocker for the enterprise-grade support and infrastructure you expect at a great price.

As always, open a ticket in ProjectLocker Portal if you have any questions or issues with this or any other feature.

ProjectLocker Maintenance - Saturday December 12 to Sunday December 13

C. G. Brown — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:54:00 -0600

This weekend, ProjectLocker will be performing additional upgrades to our servers to expand capacity and improve performance. Maintenance will begin Saturday morning at 12 AM EST (Saturday 5 AM GMT) and continue through Sunday at 12 PM EST (5 PM GMT). During this time, users of the following servers will be affected:

free1
seed1
angel1
venture1
equity1

Users on other servers and Enterprise users will not be affected.

If you are on an affected server, you may experience intermittent interruptions of service during the maintenance window. We will do our best to keep the interruptions to a minimum. As always, you can contact ProjectLocker Support if you have any questions.

ProjectLocker Maintenance - Sunday, December 6

Runako Godfrey — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:05:00 -0600

Per the previous post, this weekend's maintenance was scheduled to be completed by 2pm EST. However, some activities are taking longer than we had estimated, and so we'll need to extend the window to 8 PM EST (1 AM GMT). We apologize for the inconvenience, and we'll try to get everything up smoothly again before 8 PM. Thanks for your patience.

ProjectLocker Maintenance - Friday, December 4 to Sunday, December 6

C. G. Brown — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:34:00 -0600

This weekend, ProjectLocker will be performing a number of upgrades to our servers to expand capacity and improve performance. Maintenance will begin Friday at 8 PM EST (Saturday 1 AM GMT) and continue through Sunday at 2 PM EST (7 PM GMT). During this time, users of the following servers will be affected:

free1
seed1
angel1
venture1
equity1

Users on other servers and Enterprise users will not be affected.

If you are on an affected server, you may experience intermittent interruptions of service during the maintenance window. We will do our best to keep the interruptions to a minimum. It will also be safe for you to continue to use Subversion, Git, and Trac even if you are on an affected server. As always, you can contact ProjectLocker Support if you have any questions.

Direct Import to ProjectLocker

Runako Godfrey — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:20:00 -0600

ProjectLocker Subversion hosting recently got a new feature that makes it even easier to import your Subversion repositories.

We've long offered automated imports of Subversion dumps via FTP, SFTP, or HTTP. However, some users have indicated that they don't have the access on their existing Subversion server necessary to secure a complete dump of their existing repositories. As a result, we've built an importer that can help in some of those cases. Simply provide the URL and authentication credentials of your existing repository, and our importer will directly import your repository into ProjectLocker. All with no command-line expertise required. You don't even need a separate server to host the dump file! What could be easier?

Direct Subversion Imports are available now via ProjectLocker Portal.

Automatic Deployments

Runako Godfrey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:11:00 -0600

One of the most frequently-requested features at ProjectLocker is the ability to automatically deploy code from your repository to another server. While we've had manual deployments for a while, this wasn't scratching the deployment itch for all of our users. So today we're announcing the availability of automatic deployments for Subversion.

Automatic deployments allow you to tell ProjectLocker to automatically kick off a deployment of your choosing on each commit to your repository. Simply configure your Remote Deployment settings for your project and indicate that you'd like per-commit deployments for a given deployment environment, and you're ready to go. And since you can create as many deployment environments as you like, you can still choose to configure some of those for manual deployment. So you could configure your project to deploy to your staging server on every commit, but wait for manual intervention before deploying to your production server.

Automatic deployments are available immediately to all ProjectLocker Venture and Equity accounts.

WebHooks Land at ProjectLocker

Runako Godfrey — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0600

ProjectLocker recently introduced WebHooks for our Git hosting and Subversion hosting services, which allow you to configure ProjectLocker to notify one of your servers anytime a push (Git) or commit (Subversion) happens. The notification isn't just a 'ping', but provides all the relevant information about the event -- files changed, author, timestamp, etc. (The full JSON format is described in detail in the ProjectLocker FAQ.) That means you can use WebHooks for whatever you want -- integrating with your continuous integration server, sending out custom notifications, or anything else that could benefit from real-time updates from your repository.

WebHooks are available immediately for all paid ProjectLocker accounts.

ProjectLocker Maintenance - Saturday, October 31 to Sunday, November 1

C. G. Brown — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:11:00 -0500

We will be performing maintenance and upgrades on the ProjectLocker servers on Saturday, 8:00 PM EDT to Sunday, 2:00 PM EST ( Sunday, 1:00 AM GMT to 7 PM GMT). During this time, you may experience brief interruptions of service to all ProjectLocker services. We will endeavor to keep outage time to a minimum.

Please contact us at support <[-at-]> projectlocker [dot] com if you have any questions.