LiteTracker

News

New Lite Tracker Logo and Website

As you may have noticed, Tracker has a brand new website, and a fancy new logo, to match the rest of the Pivotal Labs family. We’ll share more about it next week. In the meantime, let us know what you think, and don’t forget to check out the

Updates

More Search Improvements

We’ve been continuing work to bring you a few more of the Search options you’ve been asking for. As well as a few fixes, we’ve extended the ability to search on created:, updated:, accepted: * using before/on/after criteria, e.g. created_before: 11/19/2012 * specifying

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Following and Notifications Now in Lite Tracker for iOS

Update: We are aware of an issue with the appearance of Lite Tracker on iOS 7. We’ve submitted a fixed version to the App Store, which will be released automatically once it is approved by Apple. We’re sorry for the inconvenience. Lite Tracker for iOS 1.8 is

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Search, Webhook, and Other Tracker Improvements

The Lite Tracker team has its hands full, with much of our focus on a redesigned interface, with new features for teams working on larger projects. Beta access to that is just around the corner. We’re also putting the finishing touches on the new API, and making various behind-the-scenes

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Unplanned Tracker Downtime Earlier Today

Lite Tracker went down without notice for all users today at 10:50 US Pacific time, for approximately half hour. This happened during a planned release to upgrade our production version of Solr (our search server) , as well as move our Solr-based search service to new hosts, for improved performance

Integrations

Tracker Ecosystem: Usersnap Your Screenshots

We are happy to announce the availability of Usersnap, the #1 screenshot tool for web development as a new third party add-on to Lite Tracker. Get annotated screenshots of the current browser content, directly delivered to Tracker. Usersnap helps you to communicate effectively about issues and share feedback between developers,

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"Aw, Snap!" Crashes Using Tracker in Chrome

If you’ve been seeing a lot of “Aw, Snap!”” crashes while using Tracker in Chrome, you’re not alone. An issue seems to have been introduced in Chrome 28 and several web apps and sites have been affected by it. We’ve reported the problem to Google, (and they

Updates

Lite Tracker for iOS—Now with Epics!

Version 1.7 of the Lite Tracker iOS app is now available in the App Store, with epics (finally!), as well as a number of usability improvements. Epics in Lite Tracker let your team plan, discuss, and easily keep track of progress of coarse-grained features or themes, at a level

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New Lite Tracker API Now in Public Beta

The new Lite Tracker developer API (V5) is now open to everyone! It’s completely new, all-JSON, much more comprehensive, and full of goodies. Keep reading for highlights and an example to get started. The recently rewritten Tracker application has been running against this new API since earlier in the

Community

Tracker Meetup in San Francisco

Attention Bay Area Tracker users! As you’ve probably noticed over the last couple of weeks, we’re back in action from a long winter of rebuilding Tracker from the ground up and have some new features out. There’s much more to come, and we’d love to have

Updates

New in Lite Tracker: Story Following and User @mentions

It’s now even easier to collaborate with your teammates and keep the right people up to date. We’re very excited to announce Tracker story following and @mentioning! Get people’s attention with @mentions Ever wanted to include someone on epic comments or a story discussion, even if they’

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The Lite Tracker Rewrite and Improved Story Linking

If you’re a long-time Lite Tracker user, you’ve probably noticed that for the last year or so, things have been fairly quiet in terms of new features. That’s because we spent that time on a complete, but focused rewrite of the core of the Tracker web application,

News

Tracking Nairobi Dev Camp

On the Tracker team, I love hearing great stories about our users and the things they are able to accomplish using agile methodologies and collaboration. I’m also a woman in tech and have a keen interest in supporting other women as well as other diverse groups who work persistently

productivity

Remote Control

Most people who have worked remote will agree—nay—commiserate on how hard it is. I’ve done it before, and while it never really gets easier, you learn to get used to it. One of the most glorious and unfortunate things about the internet is immediate access to distributed

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Seize Your Lite Tracker @username!

We’re about to introduce improvements to Lite Tracker which will help your team communicate more effectively. In order to do this, we’ll be making your (currently optional) Tracker username a requirement. If you don’t have a username, we’ll create one for you based on your name

Integrations

Tracker Ecosystem: Member Tracker

“I’ve been looking for a couple months for the right third-party tools, and couldn’t find them, so I decided to make my own,” said Brian Noah from eGood. We love and admire that initiative in our users, especially when they build something this cool. The app he had

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Gansen and Kunesh on Agile Development in the Obama 2012 Campaign

The Obama 2012 campaign has been hailed as the most tech-savvy and data-driven to date, a sophisticated operation led by CTO Harper Reed. Reed had no problem finding developers eager to join the campaign—the challenge was finding people up for the formidable task before them. A Presidential campaign poses

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Monday's Tracker Outage, New Status Page

This week started on the wrong foot with a 1 hour and 45 minute outage early Monday morning, that affected many of you. I’d like to apologize for this, and shed some light on what happened. It began as a network outage at our hosting provider’s data center,

productivity

Making Testing Visible in the Tracker Workflow

As a feature story progresses through the Tracker workflow, a lot of testing activities are also underway. Team members are collaborating to turn examples of desired behaviors into business-facing tests that guide development. Testers are performing manual exploratory testing on stories as they are delivered. Performance or security testing may

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Why Are All the Stories in Lite Tracker Missing Descriptions?

I asked this to my pair on my first day here at Pivotal. “That’s on purpose. A user story is a promise to have a conversation. When we start a story, we’ll have a discussion with the client to fill in the details.” “Ok. So we’ll just

Integrations

Six Third-Party Tools for Automatic Bug Creation and More

Lite Tracker lets you stay on top of everything to do with your project, but sometimes your stories need a little something extra. Fortunately when some of our customers feel that way, they share the results. Here’s a roundup of recent test related Third-Party Tools to help you make

Updates

Browser Support in Lite Tracker

As we recently wrote, 2013 will see major improvements to Lite Tracker, on a rebuilt foundation (including a brand new API), followed by major new features and an updated design. We can’t wait to get all this into your hands quickly, and continuously improve Tracker based on your feedback.

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Lite Tracker for iOS 1.6.1: Fixes Romaji and Other Text Input Issues: 失礼しました｡

We’ve just released version 1.6.1 of the Lite Tracker iOS app, which includes fixes for a number of text input problems. Most importantly, it fixes Romaji input for Japanese users. While we don’t officially support non-English localizations, we try our best to allow Tracker to be

Integrations

Tracker Ecosystem: Tracker Tracker

Tracker Tracker is an open-source web app that allows you to see and work with stories from across multiple projects in one Kanban style view, with search and filtering. That’s huge. We have nothing else to say on the matter really. For anyone juggling multiple projects in Lite Tracker

Updates

Greatly Refined Story Editing in Lite Tracker for iOS 1.6

Today we’ve released Lite Tracker for iOS 1.6 to the App Store. With this release we’ve thoroughly refined the app to make updating stories easier and more enjoyable. While there are all kinds of refinements, we think you’ll be most excited about the following: All text