SnapABug, a tool that allows you to embed a screen capture help widget on your site, has taken advantage of the recently released new version of the Pivotal Tracker API (V3) to improve the integration between SnapABug and Pivotal Tracker. SnapABug can now automatically upload web page snapshots as Tracker story file attachments.
Read more about this feature and other improvements here.
We've added Zendesk to the list of applications that Tracker integrates with. Zendesk is a "beautifully simple", on demand customer support help desk system. This integration allows your development team to prioritize and collaborate around Zendesk tickets as linked Tracker stories, bringing development and support closer together in your organization.
Pivotal Tracker will be down for an upgrade tonight, Friday (2/12/10), starting at 7pm PST. We anticipate to be back up within about an hour.
Apologies for any inconvenience.
This Pivotal Tracker update allows you to see GitHub or other SCM commits in your stories, your project activity in your team's Campfire chat room, and introduces the first wave of integrations with other bug/issue tracking applications including JIRA, Lighthouse, and Satisfaction.
There is also a new version of the API (V3), with support for moving stories, file attachments, as well as activity web hooks. The first version of the API (V1) is no longer available.
Continue reading for more details on what's new.
We are planing to do a Tracker upgrade (with new features including API V3 and some integrations) tomorrow, Saturday Jan 23, at 5:30pm PST. We expect the upgrade to take under two hours.
Also, Engine Yard will be performing some maintenance and upgrades our hardware cluster on Sunday, from 10:00am to 1:00pm PST.
Sorry for the inconvenience. If you need access to your project data during the downtime, we recommend you export your project(s) beforehand:
http://www.pivotaltracker.com/help#howcaniexportstoriesfrommyproject
Also, as a reminder, the first version of the API (V1) will be disabled as part of tomorrow's release. More information on that here.
If you've been looking for a way to turn emails into Tracker stories, take a look at tgethr. It's an email collaboration service for groups, and it now integrates with Pivotal Tracker.
Read about it in this tgethr blog post.
We're planning a Pivotal Tracker upgrade on Jan 23. As part of this release, we will be introducing a new API version (V3), which will make it easier to follow project activity, allow you to add file attachments, move (re-prioritize) stories, associate source commits with stories, and more.
The current API version (V2) will not change, but V1 will no longer work. If you're still using V1, you will need to change your client code to use V2 or V3.
To find out what's changing in V3, continue reading.
We're starting work on Tracker badges and widgets. Our goal is to allow you to share information about your project or backlog on your website, or to promote Tracker and Agile Software in general.
Our current thinking is a few widgets that expose project summary data and stories, as well as something along the lines of "I <3 Tracker"/"I <3 Agile Development" badges for those who just want to spread the love without sharing their private project data. We imagine these being used on open source project pages, personal websites, and blogs.
So I ask you: What information would you like to share (story summaries, upcoming stories, members, etc?). If your project is private do you want to be able to expose some of this information anyway? If you are interested in sharing your love of Tracker and Agile Software but not your project data what kind of badge(s) would you want?
As always, thanks for your feedback!
Written by our friends at Hashrocket, Slurper lets you create stories as plain text files and import them into Tracker via the API. Also, if you use Vim, check out slurper.vim, a Vim companion script with syntax highlighting and key mappings.
Adam Lowe's blog post talks about these really useful new tools in more detail.
For other Tracker tools, see the 3rd Party Tools page.
MobiTracker, written by Steven Nie, is a new iPhone app for Pivotal Tracker. It uses the Pivotal Tracker API, and supports off-line reading and editing of stories, search, email, and more.
MobiTracker is available for download now on iTunes.