Follow-up Comment #14, support #422 (project savane):
"Web Architected
Access via a Web browser from any location at any time
No client-side installation, saving time and simplify maintenance"
Idem.
"Unified Role based Permissions and Security
Role / Group based access permissions on artifacts. Authentications for
internal, external, off-shore and customized user accesses
Custom roles and groups"
Not sure about what they mean about "off-shore user accesses" but we have role
/ group access/posting permissions on trackers.
Groups are custom indeed; roles are more strictly defined
(manager/technician/none).
" Fast Project setup
Users can reuse (inherit) existing template projects with users, roles,
trackers, forums, when creating a new project
Customized template trackers i.e. Task, Bug, Requirements can be used to
create new ones."
Idem via "tracker configuration copy" feature.
"Dashboard with real time reporting
Real Time Task Reporting with charts, Gantt chart
Real Time Bug Reports with charts
Source code quality and code changes reports with trends "
No charts.
"Software Configuration Management (SCM) Integration (change management)"
CVS integrated, CVS and SVN pending to be.
That said, we do not have commits associated with bugs.
Managed Subversion Repositories
"Managed repository support where CodeBeamer's roles and permission can be
used to control access to local or remote repositories."
Idem.
"Issue Tracker with Change Approval Enforcement
Track Task, Bug, Feature request, Change request, and other issues
Change Approval Enforcement provides Project Managers with better control on
changes of critical tasks, requirements and other artifacts where the change
has impact on the project plan, on resources or on deliverables"
Not sure about what it means exactly. But such control can be achieved using
Savane, making sure only manager got the "manager" status on the relevant
tracker.
"Attachments, E-mail notification on changes "
Idem.
"Association with other artifacts / issues"
We have a dependancy system.
"Subscription, Search, History"
We have these (Cc copies, search, history).
Savane also also to digest items for clean printout.
"Custom fields, choice fields"
Idem.
"Fast navigation with Next/Previous buttons on Items"
We do not have these. Nobody ever asked such feature.
"Cut/Copy/Paste (Duplicate, Move) Issue Items between trackers and projects"
Savane allow reassignation of an item to another tracker/another project.
"Mass Edit"
Not sure of what it means.
"Default Values"
Indeed Savane allows to defines default values.
"Fine granulated role-based access permission"
We believe Savane role-based access permission is quite finely granulated too
(anonymous user/authentified user/member/member technician/member
manager/member manager & technician)
"Field level access permissions"
Not sure of what it means.
In issue tracker, some fields can only be changed by managers (priority,
assigned to).
Items can also be set as private - and it is possible to configure which
project members can see the item.
"Custom Reports
Custom reports allowing increased flexibility and automatic generation of
release notes and other reports"
The item digest features permits this. We know several users, at CERN Savannah
for instance, generate release notes this way.
"Source Code Browsing and Comprehension"
We believe that's not the job of Savane but of a third party software like
cvsweb.
"Document Manager
Document Versioning
Document History
Access control Lock, Read, Write, Delete on document/role level
Document Attributes: index, description, category, status, history
E-mail notification on document Read/Write
Directory level notification subscription
Directory level read/write permissions"
To us, there's no strong reason to manage docs differently than source code.
"Comprehensive Search
On all data captured such as documents by indexes, forums, tracker, personal
skills on project level or on all projects"
We have a search tool. That could improved.
"Discussion Forums
Different Forum templates for Announcements, News, Events and General
discussion
Attachments, subscriptions, watch lists"
No templates.
We do not to reimplement a complete forum system.
"Contact list
See whether other users are online (logged in) and available"
We do not want to reimplement an instant messaging system.
"Inboxes (E-mail integration)"
We do not want to reomplement email system. But Savane generates automatically
aliases for each user on the mail server.
"Integrations
Eclipse, WSAD; CodeBeamer provides Eclipse IDE with team collaboration
features such as Task and Bug management inside the Eclipse IDE.
WebDAV Support
Wiki
MS Office Integration throughs WebDAV (named as web folder in MS Office). User
can open/create/change CodeBeamer documents directly from MS Office.
MS Excel Export
E-mail clients
LDAP
SCM systems
Telelogic CM Synergy
Merant PVCS
Subversion
Microsoft SourceSafe
CVS"
None of these apart from subversion and CVS. We will not provide features that
depends solely on proprietary software (but anyone needing it can implement it
- because Savane is libre software).
"Bugzilla bug database import"
We do not have this.
"Platforms
Client: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla"
Most pages of Savane are w3c recommendations compliant. So every web browser
understanding w3c rules should work. Such list is pointless.
"Servers platforms:
Windows 2000/NT/XP,
Linux: RedHat 7.1 and higher, SuSE 7.3 and higher
SUN SPARC Solaris 7, 8, 9
IBM eSeries/zLinux"
Savane depends on apache, mysql, PHP and Perl.
Any system providing these should work.
I assume that any software services company that have experience with these
software can provide support for Savane - since Savane is free software.
"ISO-8859-1 character set support
UTF-8 character set support for Asian customers (Kanji, Traditional Chinese
and Simple Chinese)"
ISO-8859-15 by default, UTF-8 ongoing.
Some feature we have not mentionned before:
- request for inclusion: users can ask to join a project, searching in the
form the name/description of the project, adding an explanation message. A
notification will be sent to projects admins and they'll decide on the matter.
This feature is quite useful in Institutions like CERN where groups are
created at meetings and where afterwards, people of the groups already decided
at the meeting need to join the group on Savane - it helps the project leader
that do not have to spend time to search for each user in the database.
- groups can be associated to groups type, that allows different
configuration of default setups and restrictions for groups.
- many links in the project menu can be configured, if the site admin allows
it, via the group type configuration.
- with the issue trackers, mail notification can be item category specific
- there is a news system where anybody can submit an item ; the item get
pending until a news manager of the project approve it
- project registrations are managed via the task tracker
- trackers automatic fields update: you can configure a field to be updated
automatically if another field reach a specific value. As example, you can
configure your support tracker to set an item to private if the severity field
is set to "security". And this can trigger assignation of the item to a
specific technician and send notifications to a specific list.
- in "My Incoming Items" section (not included in release 1.0.5, will be in
1.0.6), any user can see news that should be of matter to him (news posted on
projects he is member of; new and unassigned items posted on tracker he is
manager of; items newly assigned to him by someone else)
- in "My Items", any user can get an overview of his items (submitted by and
assigned to), mentionning the item status. He can defines the priority
threshold of items to show
- it is possible to "watch parner activities": useful to do QA, it allows
someone to get any notification sent to another member of his project.
- user session management: users can check (and even remove) open session
with their account.
- color theme: Savane comes with more than 10 color themes. While
companies/institution usually want to create they own color theme/design
(Savane use CSS extensively, it gives many possibilities), it proved to be
useful in several places to provide different theme, simply because you'll
never be able to have color theme that everybody truly enjoy.
- user notifications: any user can configure in which case he wants to be
notified ; any can configure the subject line of mail notifications he
receives
There are a few things apart from that. And one important thing, Savane is
libre software. You can pay whatever (competent - apache, mysql, PHP and perl,
it should not be very hard to find people with such knowledge) company to get
support for it. You are 100% you will not end up blocked because the editor do
not to implement what you need. You can benefit from improvements made by
others and get your improvements integrated upstream.
Savane was chosen by the CERN LCG App several years ago. People there seems
quite satisfied.
Savane is not very easy to install. But quicker and easier to set up than
bugzilla.
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