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Getting started with issue tracking is much more than deciding on a software application or hosted service. It requires taking stock of team and client culture to arrive at a smooth and productive workflow. In the first part of this 2-part post, we talked about starting with the basics of what your choice of issue tracking system offers and growing from there, as well as defining terms for describing issues consistently across the whole team. In this post, we’ll look at more high-level aspects of implementing issue tracking in your team’s practices.

Got issues to manage? Most software teams do. They’re to-do lists that get angry when they don’t get done, and they can make teamwork flow through the day or end up in an unmanaged state. If your email inbox is the only tool you’re using to track issues, you’re more likely treading water than swimming. And it’s just that feeling that brings many development teams to an issue tracking system to get a handle on bugs and feature requests. With that in mind, we have a 2-part post of guidelines for getting started with issue tracking.

Matt Assay has once more delivered some great info - this time on the openness of the Dutch to.... open source! The Dutch government is apparently running a wealth of open source as of this year. Matt shares a map of all the open source products the Dutch are running and offers an English translation of it. Very enlightening!

More developers means faster development, right? Wrong. When you add a new developer, it feels like you add developer² connections. And more connections equal new ways to waste time and lose vital information.

Simplify your team's communication with Workspace.

Workspace has all the tools your team needs to stay connected, focused and on task, whether they're sitting right beside you or coding in the Caribbean.

We're excited to unveil a project we've been working on for months: Workspace.

We call it 'instant infrastructure for managing your software development projects'. It's a web-based tool that helps you manage the software development workflow with tools for:

• Source code hosting
• Revision control
• Feature and issue tracking
• Project management reporting
• Communications, like forums, blogs and wikis

ActiveState is proud to be a sponsor of Open Source Bridge 2009.

We are happy to announce that our blog has been moved to WordPress. You'll get the same great content but now it's much easier on the eyes and includes some great new features like an events calendar.

Let us know what you think.

So maybe dentists know more about the gum-chewing habits of their patients than how they prefer to create their XML documents. But a few of us here were discussing whether Relax NG has made headway against XML Schema. I have...

So maybe dentists know more about the gum-chewing habits of their patients than how they prefer to create their XML documents.  But a few of us here were discussing whether Relax NG has made headway against XML Schema.