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Tracker Service Restored

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. Our apologies for not being able to access your projects this morning. We continue to investigate, and are waiting for our hosting provider

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Extended Lite Tracker Maintenance on Sat, Oct 2 at 12pm PDT

Tracker will be unavailable for approximately three hours this Saturday, Oct 2, starting at 12:00pm (noon) PDT. We’re adding indexes and optimizing DB tables to improve performance. Originally published here. Originally published by: Dan Podsedly.

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Tracker Maintenance Tonight at 8:30pm PDT

We will be performing a maintenance update to Lite Tracker tonight (Friday, Sep 17) starting at 8:30pm PDT. Anticipated downtime is under one hour. This update will include a few performance improvements, bug fixes, and some new account management features. Originally published here. Originally published by: Dan Podsedly.

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Tracker Maintenance Rescheduled to Friday, Sep 10 at 8pm PDT

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). The maintenance will begin at 8pm PDT, and we anticipate approximately one hour of downtime. Originally published here. Originally published by: Dan Podsedly.

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Network Issues Today

Our managed hosting provider experienced an extended network outage today, which affected a number of applications including Lite 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

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Data Center Maintenance Affecting Tracker Tonight at 11pm PDT

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

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Tracker Outages This Week

There appears to have been a data center outage early morning, affecting a number of applications including Lite Tracker. This has caused connectivity problems for users in some locations, and it appears to still be persisting for some. We’re working with our hosting provider to get this resolved as

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Lite Tracker Moving to New Servers Thursday, Jul 22

Lite Tracker is moving to a new private cloud hosting environment at Engine Yard this Thursday, July 22, starting at 8pm PDT. Planned downtime is approximately one hour, but because we’re changing IP addresses of the Tracker servers, it may take longer for DNS changes to full propagate. If

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Lite Tracker Scheduled Weekly Maintenance

For the next month or so, we will be rolling out a series of changes to various parts of the Tracker server architecture, including moving to a Memcached distributed cache for certain requests, cookie based sessions, switching from Mongrel to Passenger, splitting the very large history table, etc. We’re

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OAuth For Tracker Twitter Notifications

Starting June 30, the Twitter API will no longer allow 3rd party applications (such as Tracker) to connect using your Twitter username and password. Instead, applications will be required to use OAuth, an authentication protocol that allows users to approve a 3rd party application to act on their behalf without

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Lite Tracker DNS Change This Saturday

We’ll be making some DNS changes that affect Lite Tracker this Saturday, May 29, at 10:00am PDT. We expect a fairly short outage, but for some users, Tracker may be unavailable for up to 6 hours. Originally published here. Originally published by: Dan Podsedly.

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Looking for Ruby on Rails Developers

Pivotal Labs has been at the forefront of agile development since it’s early days. We’ve taken what we’ve learned by applying agile concepts on a countless number of real world projects, and honed these skills into a very effective way to build software. Along the way, we

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Lite Tracker Down for an Upgrade Tonight (Friday) at 7pm PST

Lite Tracker will be down for an upgrade tonight, Friday (2/12/10), starting at 7pm PST. We anticipate to be back up within about an hour. Apologies for any inconvenience. Originally published here. Originally published by: Dan Podsedly.

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Lite Tracker Maintenance and Upgrades This Weekend

We are planing to do a Tracker upgrade (with new features including API V3 and some integrations) tomorrow, Saturday Jan 23, at 5:30pm PST. We expect the upgrade to take under two hours. Also, Engine Yard will be performing some maintenance and upgrades our hardware cluster on Sunday, from

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Lite Tracker Nominated for Crunchie Award

Lite Tracker has been nominated for Best Internet Application in this year’s Crunchies Awards. If you’re a fan of Tracker, please help us win the award by voting! Originally published here. Originally published by: Dan Podsedly.

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Mar. 30 Tracker Outage

Here’s some information from Engine Yard (our hosting service provider) about yesterday afternoon’s data center outage, which affected a number of applications including Lite Tracker. We apologize for the inconvenience this outage caused, and appreciate everyone’s patience. As detailed in Engine Yard’s post, steps are being

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Pictures from the Jolt Awards

As Ian just posted, Lite Tracker won a Jolt award tonight. Here are some early pictures from the event. The Jolt award for Lite Tracker. Edward with the Jolt award for Lite Tracker. Ian with the Jolt award for Lite Tracker. Originally published here. Originally published by: Edward Hieatt.

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Mingle and Lite Tracker

Matthais Marschall at AgileWebOperations.com posted an interesting article the other day comparing Lite Tracker to Thoughtworks Mingle. He recognizes that the two tools have a very different philosophy when it comes to configurability: Mingle supports a huge number of different configuration options, whereas Tracker is intentionally very simple and

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Best Buy and Pivotal Labs

Kevin Matheny, Senior E-Biz Architect at Best Buy, has an excellent article. Today on BusinessWeek.com about Best Buy’s take on Agile software development and Best Buy’s experiences as a client of Pivotal Labs. As he mentions in the article, Pivotal Labs has been helping Best Buy build

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GitHub Post Receive Hook for Tracker

Chris Bailey wrote a GitHub post receive hook for Tracker, using the API. It’;s a web service that you run on your own server, and it automatically updates stories in your project(s) based on commit comments. Check out his blog post here. Thanks for spending your Thanksgiving on

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Tracker: the iPod of Project Management Software?

Nivi, from Venture Hacks, wrote a great article about why Lite Tracker is great for startups. It’s worth reading even if you’re already a fan of Tracker, and nails down the key ingredients to successful project management. Check it out here. Originally published here. Originally published by: Dan

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Tracker API Released

We’ve released the first version of the Tracker API. It’s a RESTful HTTP XML interface, uses a simple, token-based authentication mechanism, and allows you to query as well as update stories in your projects. To get started with the API, read through the API Help page (it includes

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Tracker in Agile Project Tool Review Post

Bruno Miranda posted a review of various agile project management tools including Mingle, VersionOne, TargetProcess, and Tracker. Check it out here. We’ve let Bruno know that Tracker is actually under active development. One of the first new features that we’ll be rolling out soon is a REST API,

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Tracker Public Beta

We’ve decided to share Tracker with the agile community. Details of the launch have yet to be worked out, including an exact date, but please register here if you’re interested in participating in the beta. Stay tuned for more details! Originally published here. Originally published by: Dan Podsedly.