PloneCollectorNG

What is it?

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

These pages are currently in the progress being migrated to www.zopy.com

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
• 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
• KnownIssues.
• Installation and configuration of the issue-through-email submission functionality (requires PloneCollectorNG 1.2 or higher)
• Group support
• per-instance WorkflowSupport

Requirements

• Zope 2.7, Python 2.3.3, Plone 2.0 , 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
• Release notes
• CVS access:
  • follow the CVS instructions
  • 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
• Known issues
• Use the Collective bug tracker to file bug reports. Please read the bugreporting guidelines 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 for details.
• Migration PloneCollectorNG 1.1 to 1.2

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]

Commercial support:

For commercial support, customizations etc. visit zopyx.com