We've got a major update of Pivotal Tracker planned for this weekend, which requires downtime while we run a fairly major database schema migration.
The update is planned for Saturday, Feb. 4, at 9:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST), or 17:00 UTC, and we expect it to take approximately one hour.
Apologies for the inconvenience, but we're hopeful that you'll like what we're rolling out!
For real time status updates, please follow @pivotaltracker on Twitter.
At Pivotal Labs, 2011 was an amazing year. And we want you to help us make 2012 even better. We're currently hiring for the following positions across our San Francisco, New York City, Boulder, Denver and Singapore campuses:
- Software Engineer - Mobile
- Software Engineer - Web
- Software Engineer - Tracker
- Sr. Software Engineer
Want to know more? Click here for full job descriptions, and to apply.
We're working on a new version of the Pivotal Tracker developer API, with a long list of improvements. The release of this is a few months away, but to prepare for it, we're removing the old version (V2) of the API. This change (removal of V2) is tentatively planned for January 27, 2012, just over three weeks from today.
If you're using the API, please make sure that you're using the current version (V3), as requests to V2 will no longer work.
To see which version you're using, look at the URLs of the requests you're sending. If you see "v2" in the path, for example /services/v2/projects, you're using the old version, and will need to upgrade to the current API version.
If you have any questions, or could use help figuring out how to make your code work with the V3 version of the API, please send an email to tracker@pivotallabs.com.
Apigee, a company that helps you use and develop APIs, just announced a number of new API consoles, including for Pivotal Tracker. The Pivotal Tracker API Console allows you to explore the API from within your browser, and makes it easy to test and debug your code that uses the API. Check it out!
For the rest of the new consoles, see the Apigee announcement blog post.
We're planning the first of an on-going series of Webinars for Pivotal Tracker users for next Wednesday, Dec 21, at 11:00am PST (19:00 GMT).
This is going to be a 1 hour session, via GoToWebinar. Anyone is more than welcome to join, but this particular session will be geared towards new Tracker users. We'll go over the agile concepts behind Tracker, show how to get started with your first project, and give you a tour of the most commonly used features. At the end, there will be an opportunity to ask plenty of questions.
Please register in advance, at the following URL:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/520854266
Instructions for how to join the Webinar will be emailed to you after you register. Since GoToWebinar requires you to download and install an app to join, we suggesting connecting a few minutes before 11:00am on Wednesday.
See you there!
Hojoki is a new collaboration app that promises to "make all your cloud apps work as one", by integrating many of the most popular services that your team uses daily (including Pivotal Tracker, of course) into a personalized activity stream.
Once configured, your Hojoki activity stream shows you when a story is created, edited, started, finished and deleted. Hojoki also shows you all of your project members, and allows you to search for who created a story, who requested it, and who is responsible for implementing it.
Version 1.1 of the Pivotal Tracker for iOS app is now available in the iTunes App Store. This update adds the Search and My Work panels, a redesigned iPhone interface, and many overall usability improvements. All the details after the jump, below.
pWidget is a new 3rd party tool for Pivotal Tracker. It's an embeddable widget, that can be shown in any iframe, and shows stories from multiple projects. Configure it via URL params to show stories matching a search result, from specific projects, in label-specific priority order, and more!
Check out the pWidget page for more details.
For other helpful tools, see the Tracker 3rd party tools directory, and subscribe to the RSS feed to stay on top of new ones as they're added.
We're planning database server configuration changes and maintenance work for this Saturday, Oct 29, at 2pm PDT (21:00 UTC). Tracker will be unavailable for approximately one hour.
For the most up to date status information, please follow @pivotaltracker.
Our friends at CaseCommons have built TrackerDashboard - a tool to help manage a large team of 25 developers, 2 designers, and 4 product managers as they build a world class enterprise application. It's open source, and available for use to anyone, so check it out!
