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.
Perhaps you have heard about Pivotal Tracker but you don't know if it's a good fit for your organization. Perhaps you are a new user with some questions about how best to use the tool. Perhaps you've been using Tracker for a while but are curious about more advanced features. If you're in San Francisco next Tuesday we can give you answers in person.
The San Francisco Tracker Users Group is having a lunchtime meeting next Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. at the Pivotal Labs office on Market St. Please register on the Meetup site, as seating is limited.
Edward Hieatt, Principal at Pivotal Labs and Pivotal Tracker developer, will give an overview of the idea behind Pivotal Tracker and the common features. Based on time and interest, Edward will go into more detail about advanced features, upcoming features, and the philosophy behind Tracker. We hope to see you there!
Beverages will be provided, but please bring your own lunch.
The Pivotal Tracker API has now been available for just over a year, and we're really pleased with the rich variety of tools and applications that our user community has built with it, to extend Tracker's functionality. There are now integration tools, wrappers for various programming languages, mobile apps, an IRC console, and many more on the way (see the 3rd party tools page for a comprehensive list).
We're continuing to improve the API based on your feedback. Recently, we've added the ability to create projects, manage project members, and search for stories based on created and last modified dates. For the next API release, we're adding ability to move a story relative to another story, add file attachments, and get current project velocity and all labels. We're also adding support for Github post-commit hooks, so you can do things like "finishes #123456" in your commit messages.
The most exciting new feature that we're working on, though, is a push webhook, which will allow your applications to listen to activity in your Tracker project(s). You'll be able to register a URL, per project, to which Tracker will post all story changes to (as XML). With this webhook, we're hoping to enable a whole new class of 3rd party tools and applications, for example to facilitate 2 way integration with bug tools.
Most of these enhancements will be part of a new version of the API (V3), which we hope to have ready at the end of the year. As part of this release, we will also be turning off the first version of the API (V1), so if you're still using that version, you'll need to update your client code to V2 prior to that. V2 is the current version, documented on the [API Help page]. For the exact date of this release, watch this blog, or follow @pivotaltracker.
As always, your feedback is welcome. If you have ideas for other things that would be useful to add to the API, or have built a tool you'd like to share, let us know!
dan
Koombea announced the release of the Track-r application for iPhone, a mobile client for Pivotal Tracker. Track-r is a free, open source application, and was developed using Rhomobile's RhoHub and the Rhodes "write once and run on many" framework. Trackr uses RhoSync to sync data to your device allowing you to manage your work whether or not you have an internet connection. All of your data is synced with Pivotal Tracker the next time you get a connection.
Track-R uses the Pivotal Tracker API, which has allowed developers to create dozens of tools and applications to help extend the functionality of Tracker.
More information about Track-R is available in Koombea's press release:
To get the app, and get updates on the latest version, see the Track-r page on Koombea's site.
Pivotal Tracker has been nominated for Best Internet Application in this year's Crunchies Awards. If you're a fan of Tracker, please help us win the award by voting here!.