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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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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.

Lighthouse Integration Is Here

C. G. Brown — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:10:00 -0500

Attention all Lighthouse fans: we at ProjectLocker have released an integration between Subversion and Lighthouse. Much credit goes to James Cox and the Lighthouse gang for writing a sample beacon that we used as the basis for ours, described here. Like the sample beacon, you can both submit changesets and act on tickets through your commit log messages. Existing customers can check the Support FAQ for details on how to set it up. The integration is also available for all accounts, so if you've been looking for free Subversion hosting with Lighthouse integration, you've found it.

We of course are fans of Trac at ProjectLocker, but recognize that no two teams work exactly the same way, and there are a lot of ways to track issues and manage projects. That's why we will continue to support your software team working in the way that is best for them, and continue to work with great partners like Lighthouse , Basecamp, FogBugz, and others to allow our customers to use our products and theirs together. We're excited about continuing to grow our ecosystem and hope that you find our integration points useful.

Rally Integration Update - Multiple Workspaces Support

C. G. Brown — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:31:00 -0500

For those of you who use Rally Software's solutions, we've done a pass over the Subversion integration with Rally to make it easier to set up and add support for multiple Rally workspaces. If your Rally account has access to the API, you can use our integration seamlessly by putting your Rally user name and password into your user profile, and having your account administrator set the appropriate URL for access to the API. Once this is set up, commit messages that reference artifacts are linked to the artifacts and can even act on them in some cases (for example, closing a ticket). If you have any questions, more detailed instructions are available in the support FAQ in ProjectLocker Portal.

We welcome any additional input you have as users as to what integration points you would like to see between ProjectLocker and Rally, or other tools in general. We want to help you write great software the way that works best for your team.

Do you need a Subversion client?

Damon Young — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:19:00 -0500

Whether you're running Subversion yourself on your local servers or taking advantage of one of ProjectLocker's hosted Subversion subscriptions, you'll still need a suitable Subversion client to run on your workstation. Since ProjectLocker will work with virtually any Subversion client, we're tool-agnostic. But, we realize it's probably helpful for both our new customers and veteran clients to see what's currently available. Below, you'll find a list of some of the most popular open source Subversion clients on the web, arranged by supported operating systems. This list is by no means comprehensive. In fact, if you're using an SVN client that you love, and we haven't included it here, definitely let us know and we'll add it to the list.

Cross Platform

(with either Subclipse or Subversive)

Qct

Qsvn

Linux

NautilusSVN

Windows

SVNCOM

Mac OS

SCPlugin
SvnX

New ProjectLocker Lite Plan - Equity

C. G. Brown — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:50:00 -0500

A number of ProjectLocker Lite customers have asked for a larger plan to accomodate their larger teams. Now, the Equity plan is here, with 25 users and up to 30 GB of storage for just $30/month. Like all ProjectLocker plans, you can create unlimited projects and repositories within the storage limits. New customers can sign up for the plan at the ProjectLocker web site, and existing customers can click on the Upgrade Account link in ProjectLocker Portal to have their account converted to Equity.

Equity is just another step towards our goal of having the highest quality Subversion hosting and Trac hosting at the lowest prices in the industry. Compare us to our competition, then try us today. And to the thousands who have already decided that ProjectLocker is right for them, thank you for choosing ProjectLocker.

Now ProjectLocker is raffling off TWO iPhones

Damon Young — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:45:00 -0500

Midnight tonight, August 31st, is the cut off for the iPhone Referral Raffle we started at the beginning of this summer. As we mentioned before, whomever has the most referrals by tonight will win a new iPhone, courtesy of ProjectLocker. But, because we've gotten such a great response and to sweeten the pot a bit more, we're also going to give away a SECOND 16 GB iPhone 3G to one other customer reference in a random drawing after tonight.

So, even if you haven't made the most referrals, you can still refer your software startup friends to ProjectLocker. If they order any of our services before midnight tonight, Pacific Standard Time, and enter your e-mail in the Referral Source field, you'll be in the running. So don't wait - the clock is ticking.....

Talk on Trac at LinuxWorld

C. G. Brown — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:14:00 -0500

I noticed that Steven Ellis of OpenMedia recently gave a talk on Trac at LinuxWorld. From looking at the slides (pdf), it looks to be a good overview of Trac's features and functions, along with some tips and tricks. I looked over the presentation to see if there's anything that could benefit our current and potential users, and was pleased to learn that a lot of the tips he offered were to do things like back your Trac up, installing the post-commit hook that links it to Subversion, and so on. At ProjectLocker, our hosted Trac service already takes care of these tasks for you, so you can focus on running your project instead of running your Trac. It was a good reminder as to why Trac hosting and Subversion hosting provide real value to teams, especially when integrated to other popular hosted tools.

If you are trying to help people in your organization understand what Trac is and why you need it, this presentation isn't a bad place to start.

Spread the word about ProjectLocker. Win an iPhone.

Damon Young — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:21:00 -0500

We knew there was room in the marketplace for a hosted tools vendor who treated small teams with just as much care and consideration as a big enterprise IT department. But we were all a bit taken aback by the tremendous response we've received for ProjectLocker Lite. For those of you asking to take part in an official ProjectLocker affiliate program, you may yet get your wish later this summer. In the meantime, we thought we'd try something simple to whet your appetites, so we're having a Referral Raffle.

You can now get entries into our drawing for a brand new iPhone from Apple simply by telling your friends and fellow developers about ProjectLocker. When your friends sign up from our website, make sure they enter your email address into the "Referral Source" field at the bottom of the page during checkout. Whoever has the most referrals as of midnight EST August 31, 2008 will be awarded an iPhone, courtesy of ProjectLocker. So, if you love our service, go spread the word -- you may just strike mobile gold.

Setting up Subversion in moments instead of days

Damon Young — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:45:00 -0500

A recent entry at O'Reilly's OnLamp blog, entitled "Subversion for BSD With All the Bells and Whistles" described the time and effort that an experienced system administrator like Jeff Palmer had to take to install and configure a local instance of Subversion from scratch. In speaking with Jeff, he told me that it took up 2 days to make that first install, although now, he's probably cut the process down to 1.5 to 2 hours. In addition, he spends roughly an hour a week on maintanence.

A time savings, to be sure. But, a developer team could have access to a comparable instance of Subversion literally within moments of signing up from our website.

In addition to near instantaneous provisioning for most clients, ProjectLocker's user interfaces simplify the process of team and user management to such a degree that, for many of our clients, those tasks can be assigned to non-technical managers, freeing your more technical team members to concentrate on your most stubborn technical challenges.

It also doesn't take into account the time & materials required to both implement and maintain a backup & recovery strategy comparable to the one provided by ProjectLocker for all of our services.

Or the time saved on your development efforts by the speed of a ProjectLocker restore should such a disaster occur.

Or the flexibility of downloading backups on demand.

Or the convenience of receiving commit notifications in either Twitter or Jabber.

Or ProjectLocker's proprietary Subversion enhancements, like our Analytics tool.

In short, the time and expense your system administrators can save every day by choosing ProjectLocker is just the tip of our software quality iceberg.

Just something to consider.