Pivotal Tracker has some updates for the new year: we’ve added a built-in integration with Bugzilla, a popular bug tracking tool, redesigned the My Projects page to make it easier to use, and made the Zendesk integration more flexible. More details on all of this below. Read more...
The Tracker team has been busy since the hosting move last month. We’ve shifted our focus from improving Tracker’s performance and stability, to core product enhancement. This update introduces an updated visual design, as well the first wave of usability improvements. We’ve also added some new features, including the ability to sign in to Tracker with your Google Account. Read more...
We’ve completed the hosting move, and Pivotal Tracker is back up. We’ll post more details about the new environment within the next few days. Read more...
We have begun the hosting move, and anticipate the entire process to take approximately 6 hours. Read more...
Tracker will be moving to a new hosting environment this weekend. This post contains updated information about this move, and how it will affect you. Read more...
Last week a certain new Firefox extension made headlines by making it trivial to hijack sessions over wireless networks, and easily access unsuspecting users’ accounts on a long list of major social networking and other websites. Pivotal Tracker had the dubious honor of being on that list. Read more...
The last two and a half years have been exciting for Pivotal Tracker. It’s grown from an internal tool we at Pivotal Labs occasionally shared with clients and friends to a mainstay of the Ruby, Rails and Agile worlds. Over this period, Engine Yard has provided us with their top-tier private cloud hosting, free of charge, as a service to the community. For this we are extremely grateful, and we hope our users share our gratitude for their generosity, in this and in so much else in the Ruby on Rails ecosystem. Read more...
Tracker should be fully back to normal as of early afternoon today. Please let us know if you are still experiencing any unusual slowness or connectivity issues. Read more...
Our apologies for the site outage this morning. We’re working with our hosting provider to bring Tracker back up ASAP, and are investigating the cause. Read more...
Tracker will be unavailable for approximately three hours this Saturday, Oct 2, starting at 12:00pm (noon) PDT. Read more...
Pivotal Tracker makes it easy to add stories to you project. Hit Ctrl-A, type a quick sentence along the lines of “As a user, I can…so that…”. On most of our projects, we find ourselves discovering new stories all the time, based on the continuous feedback loop that Tracker encourages. Not all stories end up in the backlog, but it’s liberating to be able to capture new ideas and user feedback as they occur. Read more...
We’re introduced new features in Pivotal Tracker to help with account management. Accounts tend to stay out of the way for most people, but they can be essential for larger companies, especially consulting companies like ours. They allow users to separate their personal, open source, and company projects, for example, and to share administrative abilities and permissions for related groups of projects with other users. Read more...
We will be performing a maintenance update to Pivotal Tracker tonight (Friday, Sep 17) starting at 8:30pm PDT. Anticipated downtime is under one hour. Read more...
Due to last night’s brief unplanned outage, related to a necessary database upgrade, we are moving tonight’s scheduled maintenance to this Friday night (Sep 10). Read more...
We’re excited to add a new entry to the third-party tools directory: Aragorn, the first Pivotal Tracker client for the iPad. Read more...
Our managed hosting provider experienced an extended network outage today, which affected a number of applications including Pivotal Tracker. Read more...
Three interesting new user-contributed Pivotal Tracker tools have been added to the growing third-party tools list this week: Read more...
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. Read more...
There appears to have been a data center outage early morning, affecting a number of applications including Pivotal Tracker. This has caused connectivity problems for users in some locations, and it appears to still be persisting for some. Read more...
I often hear questions from Pivotal Tracker users about how to organize teams and projects. We also see many requests for features that would make it easier to see stories from across multiple projects. Read more...
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