Extreme Management tool 1.5 (Oct 08, 2007)

Highlights of this release

• Now works on Plone 3.0 (and still on 2.5 of course). See Plone 3 notes below.
• Big overhaul under the surface, introducing zope 3 techniques (for example browser views instead of python scripts in the skin) and properly fixing a bug that would sometimes show wrong totals.
• Next to normal Tasks you can add an Issue Tracker Task (or PoiTask). This looks for a Poi issue tracker in the current project. Open Issues can be linked to from that PoiTask, automatically setting the assignees. Far handier than mucking about manually creating links. Thanks Daniel Nouri!
• When viewing a Project you already saw the Stories of the current Iteration. Now you can click to expand a Story so you can already see its Tasks. This saves lots of mouse clicks and loading time. Thanks Daniel Nouri!
• In-browser explanations of why a certain Story or Task cannot be started yet, for example because no estimate has been given yet. Thanks Rocky Burt!

For the Plone 3.0 and Zope 3 stuff, see my weblog entry and the accompanying report: http://maurits.vanrees.org/weblog/archive/2007/06/report-on-extrememanagement

Dependencies

• Plone 2.5.3 or higher (2.5.2 will give you problems when reinstalling, though these can be overcome by removing some lines from catalog.xml in case you encounter this; google a bit or ask us).

OR

• Plone 3.0.
• Poi and friends. Use this bundle on Plone 2.5: http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/Poi/bundles/trunk or this bundle on 3.0: http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/Poi/bundles/plone3

If you run into problems with intelligenttext (needed by Poi) then this weblog entry may have some helpful pointers for you: http://maurits.vanrees.org/weblog/archive/2007/06/poi-intelligenttext-and-plone-3

Plone 3 notes

• Since portlets are done differently in 3.0 you will have to add them yourself manually as classic portlets. See the left and right slots in Products/eXtremeManagement/profiles/default/properties.xml for the paths to use. (For me this goes fine automatically in a site coming from Plone 2.5 by the way.)
• When you (re)install eXtremeManagement on Plone 3.0 some of its content types will have two sharing tabs. And all of them will have a superfluous metadata/properties tab as in 3.0 this can be found via the edit tab. To fix this:
  • In the ZMI, go to portal_setup,
  • go to the Upgrades tab,
  • select Products.eXtremeManagement:eXtremeManagement-30-types,
  • run the upgrade step from 1.1 to 1.5.

Download

Get it here:

http://plone.org/products/extreme-management-tool/releases/1.5

Put it in your Products directory (do not forget to put Poi and friends there too) and install it via the quick installer.

Subversion

• branches/1.5 is for maintenance and should keep working on both Plone 2.5 and 3.0. Recommended for production.
• trunk will target 3.0 exclusively from now on and may be a bit less stable for a while. It may also start having kss though, so keep your eyes open!

More info

http://plone.org/products/extreme-management-tool

Enjoy!