Are we happy with Donjon as an issue tracker?

[John Simons]

I'm asking this question because in my opinion there are quite a lot
of features (not counting bugs) missing.
I know Donjon was initially developed by Hamilton when he was working
for Castle Stronghold, but is it being maintained and improved?

There are very nice issue tracker systems out there that we could use
(OSS license) like Jira, Youtrack, ...
YouTrack eg integrates with TeamCity and svn


John

[Gauthier Segay]

As an user, I'm as happy with this bugtracker as with previous (jira)
or anyother one (I'm also using redmine, bugzilla and others), I find
it as snappy as needed when I'm searching or adding info.

one issue I've is that it is not google crawled, that make searching
restricted by donjon's search feature.

It's surely missing some features I would like, but theses other
products sure will.

[Jonathon Rossi]

Personally, I much prefer JIRA (I use it daily so I am a little bias) because it is much more feature complete and doesn't have bugs where features haven't been fully implemented.

Are there plans to continue developing donjon, or has development stalled? I am thinking about our long term usage on it.

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Jono

[Markus Zywitza]

I'm in for Donjon. It's build with the Castle stack, and therefore a showcase of how the stack can be used. However, there must be further progress on it. So I repeat Jono's question:

 

2009/9/28 Jonathon Rossi <jo...@jonorossi.com>

Are there plans to continue developing donjon, or has development stalled?

 

-Markus

[John Simons]

I agree with Jono as well. And I also much prefer Jira because of it's feature rich.

In regards to Donjon being a showcase of the Castle stack, I don't agree with that because for Donjon to be seen as a showcase app we would need to release the source code.

Cheers John

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[hammett]

Hmm.. It should prove that you can use the stack to build a rich
ui/complex backend app, not a multi-tenant app design tutorial.

As far as new development, I'm not sure. Henry needs to answer that.
But it's a combination of financial resources + time resources, and
for a small shop it's hard to have both. I'd appreciate a bit of
understanding here. CS is not Microsoft.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:43 AM, John Simons <johnsi...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> I agree with Jono as well. And I also much prefer Jira because of it's
> feature rich.
> In regards to Donjon being a showcase of the Castle stack, I don't agree
> with that because for Donjon to be seen as a showcase app we would need to
> release the source code.
>
> Cheers John

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Cheers,
hammett
http://hammett.castleproject.org/

[Jonathon Rossi]

We do understand how it is, and are not dictating anything. I was only asking for CS to be more transparent about their plans for donjon, if it comes down to "there isn't time/money at the moment to work on it", then at least we'd all know.

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Jono

[John Simons]

@hammett and henry,
I think Donjon would be a great app to showcase/promote to the Castle
users.
We have already previously discussed in this thread the lack of a
showcase app to show off all the nice things you can do with Castle.

You could still make money out of it by charging for support, what do
you guys think?

This way we can keep on developing and extending it to suit our needs
and you won't have any financial/time resources issues.

Cheers
John

On Sep 29, 7:15 pm, hammett <hamm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm.. It should prove that you can use the stack to build a rich
> ui/complex backend app, not a multi-tenant app design tutorial.
>

> As far as nowcase to the development, I'm not sure. Henry needs to answer that.

> But it's a combination of financial resources + time resources, and
> for a small shop it's hard to have both. I'd appreciate a bit of
> understanding here. CS is not Microsoft.
>

[Henry Conceição]

Dear Castle Community,

The situation is simple: By a combination of many facts (bad timing,
angel investment round that went down, us dollar weakness, etc) the
Donjon Project went out of money. Things like the angel investment
takes a lot of time, and ours in particularly was a saga. So I
understand the feeling that the project has been forgotten.

The current status of the project is on hold. We are evaluating the
possibilities and if, unfortunately, we came to a point that the
project isn't viable anymore for us, I'll let you guys know.

@John Simons We evaluated the option to open the source, but honestly,
it won't happen. I doubt the money generated by "support" will pay
even the bandwith that will be used by the svn repository ;-)

Cheers,
Henry Conceição

[John Simons]

That is sad to hear.

Hope to hear from you soon whatever is the outcome.

Cheers
John

On Sep 30, 2:03 am, Henry Conceição <henry.concei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Castle Community,
>
> The situation is simple: By a combination of many facts (bad timing,
> angel investment round that went down, us dollar weakness, etc) the
> Donjon Project went out of money. Things like the angel investment
> takes a lot of time, and ours in particularly was a saga. So I
> understand the feeling that the project has been forgotten.
>
> The current status of the project is on hold. We are evaluating the
> possibilities and if, unfortunately, we came to a point that the
> project isn't viable anymore for us, I'll let you guys know.
>
> @John Simons We evaluated the option to open the source, but honestly,
> it won't happen. I doubt the money generated by "support" will pay
> even the bandwith that will be used by the svn repository ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Henry Conceição
>

[John Simons]

Any news on this Henry?