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