Codendi

The new release of our open-source ALM platform is available in ProEdition version for our customers and in Community Edition for the Community.

You may right now download the Community version or request access to an online demo.

If you need a migration from a previous version, you may contact us.

Enjoy !

NEW FEATURES

User can now compute some aggregate functions on numeric and list fields. Those aggregates are displayed in report tables (and therefore in dahsboards and artifact link fields).

Available functions:

• Numeric fields: sum, average, standard deviation, min, max, count, count group by
• List fields : count, count group by

IMPROVEMENTS

• Improve ergonomy on aggregate functions
• Improve artifact link browsing
• Improve reorder the followup comments
• Improve the display of linked artifacts in the field ArtifactLink
• User can now select artifacts to link through a nifty selector window and create “sub-artefact” directly inside the artifact.
• Improve export file in CSV format
• For public project, not authentificated users won’t have acces anymore to any public project.

Yep. That’s right. We already have something to show you whereas the Codendi 4.2 has only been released nearly two months ago. Release early, release often they said

The long time spent in the previous release to make the tracker engine more powerful clearly pays off!

I can’t give details on the roadmap of the future 4.4 version, but one of our goals are to allow a better tracker aggregation. There is a lot of things to say about this subject however we will focus only on small parts, one at the time. Who said “for once”?

Improve the display of linked artifacts

Here is the story. A long time ago, in a Codendi 4.0 far, far away, one could make a dependency between two different artifacts by using a special field named “Dependencies”. We refactored it as a standard field in Codendi 4.2 so that tracker administrators could put permissions or place it as they want on the form. This new field, named ArtifactLink, stores a list of artifact ids and produces links to corresponding artifacts.

This is what we have in Codendi 4.2:

ArtifactLink in Codendi 4.2

This example shows a user story. Four tasks implement the user story. Four bugs are linked to the user story. While the feature is here (we can add and remove dependencies to artifacts), it is far from being satisfying. It is not sexy. It is not meaningful. It suffers from lack of information: Is the bug X closed? What is the progress of the task Y? How many tasks are linked to this user story? A first step toward a better trackers aggregation is to improve the display of the linked artifacts. Wanna see the results?

Sneak peek!

ArtifactLink in 4.4 alpha 1 – Tasks

Niftiest, isn’t it? One tab appears for each tracker, each one uses a report view (the first one for now) to display linked artifacts. It raises some interesting questions: How do we link/unlink artifacts now?  Are we able to create (and link) easily a subtask from a specific UserStory? Can we use another report? Should we display graphs? … Many questions will find an answer in future alpha releases!

You can download the alpha 1, test it by yourself and give us your feedback. The sooner we have your input the better we can match your expectations!

So, what do you think?

The new release of our open-source ALM platform is available in ProEdition version for our customers and in Community Edition for the Community.

You are all invited to discover the new functionalities : new tracker engine with intuitive administration, workflow…, Git plugin, statistics plugin for administrators, …

To do so, you have several ways:

An overview with the online demo project

You can explore Codendi 4.2 features with our online demo project. This does not require any installation, you just fill in a form and immediately get logins to experience Codendi 4.2 with different views and permissions according to your role : you can play the role of a project manager, of a developer and of a client. The demo project includes simple data that you can modify. 

A 30-day trial : test it out for free with your own project data

If you would like to go into details and make an in-depth evaluation, you can ask a personal account to create your own project on a test server. You will have 30 days in which to enjoy all of the features of Codendi 4.2 with full administrative control. Once you’ve tried out the ALM platform and like it (we think you will), just ask us to migrate your data on a dedicated SaaS server or on an on site-installation.

Sign up to the next live webinar

Want a demo of the new features ? Have technical questions ? Would like to understand the differences between the Community Edition and the Pro Edition ? Sign up to the next live webinar ! In one hour, you will have all the answers to your questions.

Download it for free

If you prefer trying out Codendi 4.2 in your own infrastructure, then download and install the Codendi Community Edition by yourself. Keep in mind that we can not provide support or consulting on this version. You can get help from the Community and documentation at your disposal on Codendi.org

We hope you will enjoy this new version. Don’t hesitate to make comments here.

NB : If you are a customer, either in Saas or in on-site installation, the person in charge of Codendi in your company should have been contacted by our service to plan the migration from 4.0 to 4.2. If you would like more information about it, please get in touch first with him/her or else you can write us.