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What is it?

  !PloneCollectorNG is a very flexible, easy-to-configure and easy-to-use
  Plone-based bugtracking system. 

<blink><a href="http://www.zopyx.com/OpenSource/PloneCollectorNG/"><font size="+2" color="red"><b>These pages are currently in the progress being migrated to www.zopy.com</b></font></a></blink>


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New features:

  - Designed for Plone (plone-ish skins)

  - complete TTW configuration of all issue properties (no configuration files)

  - Email notifications

  - References between issue including a graph-like representation 
    of the dependency tree (using Graphviz)

  - improved usability, reporting

  - Plone 2 Look & Feel 

  - "Group support":GroupSupport

  - per-instance WorkflowSupport



License:

  - PloneCollectorNG V 1.2 or higher: GNU Lesser Public License V 2.1 (LGPL)
 
  - PloneCollectorNG up to V 1.1.X: Andreas Jung Public License (GPL compatible) 


Documentation:

  There is no dedicated documentation yet. 

  - Some "FAQs":http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/collective/PloneCollectorNG/docs/FAQ.txt?view=markup 

  - KnownIssues.

  - <a href="IssueSubmissionThroughEmail">Installation and configuration of the issue-through-email submission functionality</a> (requires PloneCollectorNG 1.2 or higher)

  - "Group support":GroupSupport

  - per-instance WorkflowSupport

Requirements

   - Zope 2.7, Python 2.3.3, "Plone 2.0":http://www.plone.org , Archetypes 1.3beta4

   - The 'email' package of Python *must* be available. Either use Python 2.2.3
     for running Zope or get the 'email' package from Python 2.2.3+ and install
     it in the PYTHONPATH of your Python 2.1.3 installation.

   - PlacelessTranslationService (required for PCNG 1.2+)

  - Optional packages:

   - Reportlab (www.reportlab.org) - required for PDF output

   - PIL (Python Imaging Library) required to include uploaded images
     in the PDF output

   - Graphviz (www.graphviz.org) to produce dependency tree for
     issue references

   - PyCrypto (www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto) if you want to the
     "issue submission through email" feature.




Installation

  - unpack the archive in the Products folder of our Zope installation
    or INSTANCE_HOME of your Zope installation
  
  - restart Zope

  - visit the ZMI screen of Plone site and go to the portal_quickinstaller
    tool

  - select the checkboxes for PloneCollectorNG (and Archetypes) and press
    'Install'

  - go back to your Plone site
  
  - go back to your Plone site and select "Plone Collector NG" from the 
    add-list of the folder_contents view of a folder and create a 
    new PloneCollectorNG instance

  You can also use the Plone frontend. Go to "Plone setup". Choose
  "Add/remove products" and select "PloneCollectorNG" to be installed. That's
  it.

  *Upgraders should also uninstall/re-install PloneCollectorNG by following
  the instructions above.*




Status and Download:

  - stable: V 1.2.3 (requires Archetypes 1.3 b4 or higher)

  - "Download":http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55262&package_id=96051
  
  - "Release notes":Changes.txt

  - CVS access:

     - follow the "CVS instructions":http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=55262

     - The current  maintenance branch for Plone Collector is 'pcng-1_1-branch' 
   
     - PCNG V 1.2.X is currently developed on the 'pcng-1_2-branch'. 

     - CVS HEAD is for new features only and should not be used for production or whatever.
       No support for any code on the CVS HEAD.

  - "To-Do list":ToDo

  - "Known issues":KnownIssues

  - Use the "Collective bug tracker":http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=55262&atid=476390 
    to file bug reports. Please read the <a href="BugReporting">bugreporting guidelines</a>
    before posting a bug report.

Migration:
   
   - A migration script for the conversion of !CMFCollectorNG sites to PloneCollectorNG is 
     included in 'Extensions/migrate.py'. See "here":MigrationCMFCollectorNGToPloneCollectorNG for details.

   - "Migration PloneCollectorNG 1.1 to 1.2":Migration120 

Your contributions:

  - looking for someone to create a nifty icon and logo for PloneCollectorNG!

  - more catalog translations for other languages wanted! 

Contact:

  Andreas Jung: "[email protected]":mailto:[email protected]

Commercial support:

  For commercial support, customizations etc. visit "zopyx.com":http://www.zopyx.com