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We're excited to add a new entry to the 3rd party tools directory: Aragorn, the first Pivotal Tracker client for the iPad.
The first version of Aragorn supports read only views of your projects and stories within them. Thanks to @elight for writing the app!
Our managed hosting provider experienced an extended network outage today, which affected a number of applications including Pivotal Tracker.
The outage was caused by a failure of a primary network load balancer. Network engineers have replaced the load balancer, and are in the process of investigating why traffic did not fail over to a secondary load balancer as expected. They will be performing a fail over test early this morning, from 1am PDT to 3am PDT, during which time some Tracker users may experience increased latency.
We appreciate everyone who notified us about this outage, and apologize for the inconvenience of not being able to access your projects this morning.
Three interesting new user-contributed Pivotal Tracker tools have been added to the growing 3rd party tools list this week:
Pivotal Tracker Story Board
From vizio360, this is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to visualize your current iteration as a card wall, with columns for each story state.
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Adds a slide out panel to your rails app that directs clients to test stories that have been marked as 'delivered' in Pivotal Tracker. Thanks to PLUS2 for this one.
Pivotal Attribution
Text-based tool for tracking story completion per-user on Pivotal Tracker, from Joshua Szmajda.
We're looking forward to trying these on some of our own projects at Pivotal. Thanks to everyone who's shared their work with the Tracker user community so far, and let us know if you've written something new that you'd like to share.
We received notification from our hosting service provider Engine Yard, about scheduled data center maintenance tonight (Tuesday Aug 3) starting at 11pm PDT, lasting approximately one hour.
During this maintenance, Engine Yard's infrastructure partner Terremark will be updating the configuration of spanning tree on network switches, to be able to hot-add resources in the future. A direct outcome of the maintenance will be increased network stability.
During this maintenance window, Tracker may experience high latency or downtime for 5-10 minutes at a time. There may be a number of short latency/downtime periods during the window.