The Ux is now carried out by Adam Patterson, and thanks to him we now have some screenshow of what will be the phpCollab 3 “look”. Below you can find two images about that.

mockup for developers dashboard

project manager dashboad

While he was doing a great work on the UX side, new functionalities have been added to phpCollab v3.
We added :

• Trackers functionalities
• Issue log time
• Issue estimated time
• Analysis gantt chart

For a complete report of what has been done you can read the “what has been done” page on the phpCollab wiki.

For all developers: the github repository has been updated but the web interface does not seem to have seen it ;) Anyway, if you want to update your phpCollab source code just pull form the usual repository.

I’ll write again soon!

The planning I made has started yesterday and should reach its “end” at the end of October. All the user stories chosen are on the “what will be done” wiki page.
At the moment the objectives for October are :
- ACL management of permission
- Strengthening ticketing module and adding messages functionalities
- Introduction of module to manage resources and “time”
- Gantt chart functionality for planning a project/milestone and for looking after its progress

From now on I’ll try to commit every changes on the phpCollab 3 github repository as soon as my test are all green. Moreover I will try to keep synchronized the demo and the phpcollab_dev environment with the github repository.

In conclusion, I planned to release a stable version of phpCollab 3 at the end of August and one at the end of October. To anyone who wants to contribute just send an email to phpcollab [at] ideato.it.

Have a good week!!

During the last iteration, we have developed (more details here):
1) Features for managing milestones
2) Features to relate issues with issues and milestones with issues
3) Dashboard for projects and users
4) Actions to add comments to ticket
5) View of a simple project roadmap

We build up a demo of the actual phpCollab 3 and it can be found here. You can try it using “admin” and “user” (username == password). It has to be said that, from the point of view of the User Experience, this version it’s simple (or even poor). In the other hand we think that it could be a good start for phpCollab 3, hopefully a “new” important open-source project!!
About the UX, we are trying to find experts that could help us building phpCollab 3 in a better way! (for developers and end users) Therefore, if you (UX guys) want to help us, send us an email ( phpcollab [at] ideato.it)

For all the designers who sent us emails, we are waiting to have some materials about the UX and then we would like to start a contest about the GUI layout. Hence, we’ll let you know about the contest when we have some “mockups” about what a user should “experienced” during his/her navigation on phpCollab 3.

For the developers: other than remember you to have a look here, we will send you an email (in a couple of days) about the next iteration with all the details about the user stories that we would like to implement. You will also find that list on the wiki. Moreover the gituhb repository of phpCollab it has been updated with the latest release. Feel free to download it! Thanks for any help!

We are now in the middle of an iteration, at its end phpCollab3 should be ready to host itself!
So, we will work directly on phpCollab3 to develop phpCollab3!

Thanks again.

P.S.: Just in case some web designer is reading this, would you like to help us?

At the moment we are working on definying what will be developed during phpCollab3 next release. I’ll be in touch with you as soon as this plannig is over and I’ll wrote here all the details. If you have any question just write a comment or send an email to phpcollab [at] ideato.it

See you soon!

I’m Filippo. As Fullo wrote in the previous post, phpCollab is “moving ahead”. At the moment I’m the one who is working permanently at this project in collaboration with (and in the office of) Ideato s.r.l..

The new phpCollab will be developed with Symfony, Doctrine and following the agile methodologies such as TDD , DDD and XP. I’m speaking about a “new” application because it will inherit all the characteristics of the “old” Collab, re-written and updated, and it will have new featueres for making your project managment process as clear as possible. All the news about the project will be published here and as soon as we are at the “right” point we will tell you where to find a demo.

For those who wants to take a look at it, the source code is on github (phpCollab3). There is also a wiki that will be filled with all the information you will need, and hopefully with your comments and suggestions!
At this moment the project is under development and it is not reccomended to use it in “production”.

The phpCollab3 project is also possible thanks to “Consorsio Spinner”, “Comunità Europea”, “Ministero del Lavoro” and “Regione Emilia-Romagna”. As a matter of fact the “phpCollab3 project” has been presented to (and won) the Spinner2013 competition for projects about innovation.

Spinner2013, Comunità Europea, Ministero del lavoro and Regione Emilia-Romagna

From on the release of 2.5 the 2.x development will be officially stopped and the code unsupported. If you still need help on it, on the community forum Mindblender will help you, but no bugfix or whatever will be official released.

As announced times ago, the new release will be based on Symfony framework and it will be placed on a new svn repository with a gitHub clone (so you can feel free to fork, branch and collaborate). As soon an usable alpha code release, very limited in functionalities, will be published we will start to eat our own dog food, using phpCollab to develop phpCollab.

Moreover we will work using Agile Methods and Extreme Programming. We will publish all the user stories decided until now and we will give you the ability to write your own suggestions and stories, then all the code will be created using a TDD approach to ensure to have a product fully unit and functional tested.

Ideato is also actively working to ensure to have any important things such a good interface based on IA and UX principles absolutely needed by a software like this. But If you have interesting ideas fell free to contact us.

Stay tuned.

We are finishing up the remaining bugs, which are for PostgreSQL. Once those are completed, we will be releasing version 2.5.

Also, with the 2.5 release we will offer a XAMPP Windows package. This will allow people to get up and running practically immediately in a windows environment. More details to come.

If you are interested, please post here and let us know.

thanks.

Please, help us flush out any bugs by posting in the forums any issues you come across while using 2.5RC3 and 2.5RC4 (when it gets released).

Thanks! - PHPc Team