Sometimes the best way to learn how to use a new software tool is to just play with it. We've set up the Sandbox project in ActiveState Firefly for people to get to know the system and try things out.
Setting up your project on ActiveState Firefly is quick and easy, and it can save your team a lot of time and effort because you don't have to worry about managing the infrastructure and integrating all the pieces yourself.
This screencast steps through creating a project, and shows off some great Firefly features.
Firefly has a number of convenient bridges between features which work as handy shortcuts and make Firefly more than the sum of its parts. One such bridge is between source code control and the ticket management system.
Whether you're using Subversion or Mercurial as your version control system, you can issue commands to manage tickets, i.e.close or reference them right from the commit log message.
Everyone at ActiveState is excited to introduce our newest offering Firefly - turn-key, hosted project management and collaboration for software development! It is packed with useful features and comes pre-configured so users don't have to spend precious time configuring and maintaining their own system.
Workspace Beta: Project URL changes and SVN:
Recent changes in Workspace infrastructure have had some unintended effects for users with project repositories checked out before Sept. 28th. If you're the owner of one or more projects, it's likely that your local working copies will need to be updated if you created projects prior to this date.
We've recently rolled out some changes behind the scenes that have
made Workspace much more responsive. We still have more
work to do, but we're seeing pages loading up to three times faster than
they did before the updates.
If you're one of those folks who tried Workspace and got frustrated
with the slowness, you may want go back and give it another try now.
We've been getting a lot of people asking when we're going to support Git in Workspace. It's a fair question,
but the best answer I can give at the moment is "As soon as we possibly
can." Workspace is based on Trac, and
getting Git to integrate well with Trac and all of the plug-ins available on
Workspace is quite a challenge.
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:
