Hi,

This post is to announce a new, improved port of the WISE project 
management and metrics package to the Linux operating system.

Changes:

 *) More bug fixes.

 *) The software defect tracking template has improved,
    with a better definition of the roles of the developer,
    builder, tester and team-lead.  A help file for this 
    "project" is accessible from the system.

 *) The metrics pages now work. Metrics include histograms
    for issue type, status, component, etc. as well as rate-
    of-arrival/departure graphs for the same quantities.

 *) Precompiled i386-elf and a.out versions of gnuplot
    version 3.6 are included. Gnuplot 3.6 is needed for the 
    metrics subsystem, but is not yet available from the
    standard linux distributions, sunsite, etc.


This package can be retreived from
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/wise-1.0b.tar.gz
and
http://204.157.166.19/linux/wise/wise-1.0b.tar.gz

The LSM below provides additional details; the original
WISE web site at
http://research.ivv.nasa.gov/projects/WISE/wise.html
provides a nice overview and demo of the package.

--linas

P.S. I am looking for volunteers to add templates for other 
project types, e.g. software architecture, proposal tracking,
help-desk operations, release management, to name a few.

I am also looking for volunteers to add a (Visual) Tcl 
interface for the project description language so that
it becomes easier to manage team membership lists, create
new project templates, etc.

--linas


Begin3
Title:          wise
Version:        1.0b
Entered-date:   6JAN97
Description:    WISE is a web-based project management tool.
                It is highly configurable, and can be easily
                modified to describe a variety of functional 
                roles and project status states.  Users can
                different roles, and priveledges associated
                with a given role can be tightly controlled.
                The package includes tools to automatically
                generate various software metrics.

                The package provides a nice web-based user 
                interface, and includes support for checkboxes, 
                menus, text fields, dates, numbers, etc. Project
                status is stored in an SQL databse; an SQL log 
                of status changes is maintained.

                The beauty of this package is that it is easily
                configurable to follow your project methodologies
                and workflow, unlike most other project management 
                tools out there.

                Note that this package is a port to linux
                of the original WISE package. Assorted bugs
                have been fixed. A prototypical template
                for industrial-strength bug-tracking has 
                been added. Documentation is now included with
                the package.
 
                This package requires netpbm and gnuplot version
                3.6 to enable it's software metrics portions.
                i386-elf and a.out gnuplot binaries are included.

                The original WISE home page can be found at:
                http://research.ivv.nasa.gov/projects/WISE/wise.html

Keywords:       wise project management bug tracking software
                development metrics measurement configuration cmvc
Author:         (John R. Callahan)
                (Sudhakar Ramakrishnan)
                (Wei Sun)
Maintained-by:  linas@fc.net (Linas Vepstas)
Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/projmgmt
                1200854 wise-1.0b.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/incoming
                1200854 wise-1.0b.tar.gz
Alternate-site: http://204.157.166.19/linux/wise
                1200854 wise-1.0b.tar.gz
Original-site:  research.ivv.nasa.gov /pub/src/WISE/
                89340 wise-1.0.tar.gz
Platforms:      Unix 
Copying-policy: Copyrighted, free for internal commercial use.
End