Status on ClueMapper?

[Gerry Kirk]

Hi guys,

It's been a while, just thought I'd check in and see what the status of ClueMapper is. We're needing to set up a trac instance for a project, and thought of giving CM a try :).

- Gerry

[Rocky Burt]

Working on v0.8 these days, but as usual you can see the changelogs at:
  http://projects.serverzen.com/pm/p/cluemapper/wiki/ClueMapperTrunkChangeLog
  http://projects.serverzen.com/pm/p/cluemapper/wiki/ClueTimerTrunkChangeLog

The big push right now is to get ClueTimer useful enough in time for ClueMapper v0.8

http://preview.projects.serverzen.com has been updated with the latest v0.8 dev code ... most visible changes will be some ajaxy stuff on main page and the time tracking tab in the cluemapper project itself.

- Rocky

[Nate Aune]

Hi Gerry,

We've been making great strides on Cluemapper lately. Or rather I should say that Rocky has been kicking butt on it! I'm planning to do a screencast shortly that walks through the various features which ClueMapper provides beyond a stock Trac install.  In the meantime, here is a list of the current features and features in development (work-in-progress).

Currently, ClueMapper provides:

creating projects and managing users
- dashboard shows all Trac projects that you have access to
- new Trac projects can be created through-the-web
- manage users across multiple Trac projects (single user directory is shared among projects)
 
version control
- subversion repository is created when Trac project is created
- subversion browser page shows actual URL to check out code
- shared authentication of users with Trac and Subversion
- manage SVN r/w privileges through-the-web

admin features
- manage email notification preferences through-the-web
- each Trac site can have its own theme (selected when you create the Trac site and changed afterwards in admin screen). uses Deliverance

user features
- pastebin (single signon to make pastes)
- wiki has WYSIWYG editor (no need to learn wiki syntax)
- user can make profile with bio, photo, phone # and other custom fields you define

work-in-progress features
- time tracking (book hours against tickets, shows estimated and actual hours, fully ajaxified using Dojo) [1]
- time reporting (generate reports based on any date range, shows time per ticket and time per developer) [2]
- continuous integration with Bitten  [3]
- scrum with Agilo (requirements, user stories, tasks, burndown charts, etc)
- SVN commit messages are cross-posted to IRC channel

We'd love to get some feedback from folks on which features they are most interested in, and would like to test/provide feedback on.

thanks,
Nate

[1] http://preview.projects.serverzen.com/pm/p/cluemapper/ticket/29
[2] http://preview.projects.serverzen.com/pm/p/cluemapper/timetracking_report
[3] http://preview.projects.serverzen.com/pm/p/cluemapper/build

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[Christopher Johnson]

Hi Nate and Rocky,

Thanks for the update - things are looking good! Looks like the time booking is quite solid now - congrats.

I couldn't tell much from the dashboard screen (probably since nothing assigned to me). One bug I did notice was on the bookings view, when the list is long, you can't get rid of it. I used the ticket you sent as example. Looks like it is trying to center the list vertically, but that means the booking and the close X are off the screen...

So you all have decided to go with Agilo to add Scrum abilities? Is the new version much better? I hadn't checked it out...

We have been really busy enabling the Agile project management portion of what we need...hence radio silence for a while. We just busted out a django tool in 2 iterations (1 month) and now have something we are using in production with our clients. I tried to do a screencast but ran into technical difficulties on my laptop. We are hoping to have a demo site up soon. I will work on getting a list of features out asap, but basically we now do:
- user stories
- tasks
- test cases
- test results/runs
- iterations
- burndown chart
I have attached a screenshot so you can get a sense of what it actually looks like...

Be in touch soon.

Cheers,
Chris

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[Nate Aune]

Hi Chris,

> Thanks for the update - things are looking good! Looks like the time booking
> is quite solid now - congrats.

Rocky has estimated about a couple more days of work to get it ready
for production use. But yeah, it's definitely coming together!

> I couldn't tell much from the dashboard screen (probably since nothing
> assigned to me).

Yeah, there's not much to see unless you login and assign some tickets
to yourself and book some hours. I've attached a screenshot so you can
see what it looks like.

> One bug I did notice was on the bookings view, when the
> list is long, you can't get rid of it. I used the ticket you sent as
> example. Looks like it is trying to center the list vertically, but that
> means the booking and the close X are off the screen...
>
> So you all have decided to go with Agilo to add Scrum abilities? Is the new
> version much better? I hadn't checked it out...

It is much better, but we still haven't decided whether we're going to
use it. It makes a lot of customizations to the stock Trac install, so
we have to determine if those customizations are going to be too
intrusive, or affect the stability of the app. I'll be making some
screenshots/screencasts of Agilo soon which I can share with you.

If we do include Agilo, it will probably be an optional add-on so that
folks who don't need/want Scrum can just use the issue tracking
features of Cluemapper.

> We have been really busy enabling the Agile project management portion of
> what we need...hence radio silence for a while. We just busted out a django
> tool in 2 iterations (1 month) and now have something we are using in
> production with our clients.

Cool, is this built on top of that django-scrumtool that you mentioned
awhile back?
http://code.google.com/p/django-scrumtool/

I'm also building a Django app (http://gigblastr.com) and so I've been
digging around in the Django code archive for interesting widgets. One
that you might find useful is this one for making sortable tables.
http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=258

Have you heard of Mylyn? http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/
"Mylyn is a task-focused interface for Eclipse that reduces
information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. It does this by
making tasks a first class part of Eclipse, and integrating rich and
offline editing for repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA.
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I highly recommend watching this webinar:
https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a300965365/p46246963
and this one "Code at the Speed of Thought":
http://tasktop.com/videos/mylyn/webcast-mylyn-3.0.html

Nate

[Nate Aune]

> It's been a while, just thought I'd check in and see what the status
> of ClueMapper is. We're needing to set up a trac instance for a
> project, and thought of giving CM a try :).

Did you check out the screencast that I posted a few days ago? http://blip.tv/file/1238561

Looking forward to your Agile/Scrum talk at PloneConf!

Nate

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