Determining When You Should Stop Adding Features to a Version is Hard
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Our students grow wiser by the day.
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Our students grow wiser by the day.
Deleting Roles
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008One of the ways DrProject improves on Trac is role-based access control. A role is a set of capabilities, such as WIKI_VIEW or TICKET_EDIT, and users' relationships to projects are represented by triples of the form (user, project, role). It makes administration a lot easier, and once Qiyu Zhu's web-based ...
Liz on the Web
Friday, June 6th, 2008Liz Blankenship, our usability maven, has started blogging about her DrProject work. It's turning into quite a summer...
More About Integrating IRC into DrProject
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Kosta has posted some more thoughts about integrating IRC into DrProject. He's still working on mechanisms, but I'm looking ahead to the user interface. In particular, how should IRC logs be displayed? His first pass will be a "magic" wiki page that conversation entries are appended to (or possibly one ...
Episode IV: A New Beginning
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Nick Jamil and Jeff Balogh have posted a fairly detailed design for DrProject's new ticketing system. As far as I know, there isn't another one like it: when a project is first created, its ticketing is just a to-do list, but users can add extra fields (like "owner", "due date", ...
But I Was Gone Less than 48 Hours!
Friday, May 16th, 2008I left Toronto for Austin mid-day Wednesday, and got back at midnight last night. Lots happened in the interim, so here's a linkandthoughtdump (which I bet actually is one word in German): Gave a talk about Beautiful Code to the Austin Python Users' Group Wednesday at Enthought's swanky offices. (They're ...
Another DrProject Design Question
Thursday, May 15th, 2008We're pleased to welcome Liz Blankenship, a Season of Usability intern, to the DrProject team. Liz, a grad student in HCI, is going to help us redesign DrProject's admin interface. Along the way, I'm hoping she can give us some advice on a few other things as well, ...
Aaaand They’re Off!
Monday, May 12th, 2008Our summer interns started this morning---we got Summer of Code, we got NSERC USRA, we got ITCDF, we got you name it, a lab and a half's worth. I gave the least coherent welcoming speech of my life (bad cold, little sleep), our trusty sys admin Alan helped 'em ...
Lucky 13
Thursday, May 8th, 2008We enabled web-based self-registration in DrProject a month ago; since then, 13 new people have signed up to get notices about new versions (or to file bug reports, which are very welcome). At this rate, we'll conquer the known universe in... um... carry the six... just a hair over 39 ...
I Want a Platypus Too
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Just read Elisabeth Hendrickson's posts on next-generation functional testing tools, and thought the links (her articles, plus tools she finds intriguing) would be interesting to readers of this blog. Long story short, I'm trying to figure out whether DrProject should provide support for testing, and if so, what kind and ...