[Product-Developers] Announcing projects.plone.org - project management for community projects

Martin Aspeli optilude+lists at gmail.com
Sun May 22 14:36:33 UTC 2011


All,

With my thanks to Wyn and the IA team, as well as to Atlassian and
Balsamiq for granting us free licenses, we have some new tools to help
us manage community projects:

  http://projects.plone.org is an instance of JIRA with GreenHopper
and Balsamiq Mockups installed
  http://projects-wiki.plone.org is an instance of Confluence, also
with Balsamiq Mockups installed

Both are connected to our LDAP repository, so your plone.org account
should give you access. Members of the core developers (Committers)
group have elevated administrative privileges, whilst those in the
Collective and Archetypes commiters groups should be able to
participate in any projects that are set up.

These tools have been set up to help us manage "projects" such as Deco
and an overhaul of the the Plone UI. They give us tools to track
deliverables and tasks, plan our work, document progress and
collaborate remotely. They can be used for focused sprints or over a
longer period of time.

(Note that we are not intending to use JIRA to replace Trac for bug
tracking at this time, and have disabled some of the bug tracking
features for that reason)

You can read more about the intentions behind this and find a crash
course in JIRA/GreenHopper and Confluence at
http://plone.titanpad.com/5 [1]

You'll also find we've set up a few projects such as Deco,
Diazo/theming and Plone's UI overhaul already, cobbled together from
disparate to-do lists and notes. If you want to get involved,
hopefully this makes it easier to see what's outstanding and get
involved.

We look forward to hearing your feedback and hope you'll find this
resource useful.

Cheers,
Martin

[1] I'll migrate this to confluence once I have my broadband back.


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