GForge Blog Archive

Posted on Jan 06, 2021

GForge 20.2 Released!

We’re happy to announce the immediate availability of GForge 20.2. This is largely a bug fix release with a handful of new features. Highlights in GForge 20.2 Large File Uploads – GForge now implements chunked uploading which allows you to upload files in up to gigabytes in size, if desired. This has been implemented anywhere file uploads …

Posted on Aug 11, 2020

GForge 20.1 Released!

We’re happy to announce the immediate availability of GForge 20.1. This is largely a bug fix release with a handful of new features. Highlights in GForge 20.1 CloudForge Migration – With CloudForge shutting down on October 1st, you can now import CloudForge/TeamForge projects into next.gforge.com. Thumbnail Generation – Office documents, PDFs and image files will have thumbnail …

Posted on Apr 17, 2020

GForge 2020 Released!

We’re happy to announce the immediate availability of GForge 2020 (aka 20.0). This is a large feature release and also includes a number of bug fixes. Highlights in GForge 2020 Zoom Integration – You can now create Zoom meetings and invite project team members to the meeting right from GForge (SaaS only). oAuth Support – You can …

Posted on Mar 24, 2020

GForge joins other tool makers in offering wares for free to help companies collaborate during the Coronavirus

NOTE: This article was originally published Computerworld Major collaboration and video conferencing software vendors are now offering products to users for free in response to the spread of the coronavirus.  Concerns about the COVID-19 virus have led to a worldwide boom in remote working, as organizations encourage or require employees to stay home and cities, states …

Posted on Mar 24, 2020

How GForge can keep the coronavirus threat from killing businesses

NOTE: This post was originally published on Engineering 360, An IEEE GlobalSpec publication. View the original article here. GForge is helping businesses adapt to the coronavirus threat by making it easier to use a collaboration platform For organizations new to using collaboration platforms or new to GForge, the company is offering GForge in both software as a …

Posted on Feb 24, 2020

Big Changes Ahead for GForge in 2020

With 2020 well underway we are hard at work on a bunch of new features that will take your collaboration to the next level. Before we cover what’s in store, be sure to checkout a recap of the “Top 8 GForge Features from 2019”  OAuth Support – Not only will GForge support OAuth, over time …

Posted on Feb 24, 2020

Top 8 GForge Features in 2019

It’s the end of February and while we are hard at work adding new collaboration features to GForge for 2020, this seems like a good time to quickly reflect on what was accomplished in 2019. To help set the stage here’s some raw numbers for you! In total we added 138 new features to GForge. …

Posted on Jan 29, 2020

GForge v19.2 Released!

We’re happy to announce the immediate availability of GForge v19.2. This release includes three dozen new features and a number of bug fixes. Download GForge v19.2 Now! Take a tour of GForgeNext! Getting Started with GForgeNext Highlights in GForge v19.2 Dark Mode – GForge is joining the Dark Mode fray! Project Groups – Project leads can now …

Posted on Nov 19, 2019

Why Does Collaboration Software Suck?

Let’s face it, the collaboration space has no shortage of options. Today’s solutions come in different flavors of SaaS, on-premises or hybrid, all promising you that a few mouse clicks will have you collaborating better. The one attribute most of them have in common is they suck. In fact, many of these solutions actually make …

Posted on Oct 28, 2019

Small Iowa Tech Inked Deals with Microchip, GE, Raytheon, BAE and Siemens

Despite the technology industry being hyper focused on the next great start-up darling, one small Iowa technology company has managed to quietly ink deals with tech giants like…

Posted on Sep 11, 2019

GForge v19.1 Released!

We’re happy to announce our second GForge release for 2019 is available! v19.1 adds a number of new features and comes with a number of bug fixes. Download GForge v19.1 Now! Take a tour of GForgeNext! Getting Started with GForgeNext Highlights in GForge v19.1 Role-based ACLs for Subversion (SVN) and Git – GForge now supports role-based …

Posted on Aug 01, 2019

The Lasting Impact of OSS Communities

Before I jump into the meat of this post, I want to point out that I was stumped on exactly where to publish this. I mean, discussing how PHP and open source software has helped me certainly doesn’t belong on a corporate website, right? The more I reflected, the more I was convinced it belonged …

Posted on Jul 16, 2019

The Loveless Start Up – IPO Trough

I happened upon a short LinkedIn post by a gentleman named Josh Jones that caught my eye. The title says it all: “We spend too much time celebrating ‘Start Ups”, not enough celebrating ‘Keep Goings’”. Look, I’m not here to sprinkle any hate on the dreams of Start Ups out there but what resonated with …

Posted on May 13, 2019

GForge v19.0 Released!

We’re happy to announce our first GForge release for 2019 is available! v19.0 adds a number of new features and comes with a number of bug fixes. Download GForge v19.0 Now! Take a tour of GForgeNext! Getting Started with GForgeNext Highlights in GForge v19.0 Sprint Retrospectives – For Agile and Scrum teams GForge already lets …

Posted on Nov 14, 2018

GForge and Open Source Software

Old School OSS I can recall the low beam of light from a CRT monitor that was hooked up to a 333MHz Intel Pentium II computer that provided just the right amount of hum from its tower to compliment the loud clicks I was orchestrating from my cheap IBM keyboard. I was sitting on an …

Posted on Nov 13, 2018

GForge v18.1 Released!

Just a little over a month ago we ushered a completely revamped GForge platform dubbed GForgeNext and today we are happy to announce the release of v18.1.  Please remember we have changed our version numbering to reflect the year and the number of the release. Since this is the second release of 2018 this version …

Posted on Oct 01, 2018

GForgeNext Released!

Yes, it’s been a long time coming and nobody is happier than we are to formally announce the release of GForgeNext! For those new to GForge, GForgeNext gives you all the tools you need to build and collaborate on software. In keeping with our motto of making collaboration Simple, Comprehensive and Elegant – GForgeNext leverages …

Posted on Jun 02, 2017

Securing GForge on Apache httpd Server

It’s a series of tubes, you know. Secure connections are integral to keeping your important information safe, on the Internet or your private company network. For years it’s been fairly simple — turn on SSL, buy a certificate and let the browsers ensure that your data stays private. Unfortunately, it’s no longer that simple. Over the last 15 …

Posted on May 18, 2017

Signs That You’ve Outgrown Github, Part 3: Merges

This is part 3 in a series about the limitations of Github, and how they might be holding your team back from its full potential. If you want to go back and catch up, here’s Part 1 and Part 2. Go ahead, I’ll wait right here. Done? Okay, let’s move on. Today’s discussion is about …

Posted on May 08, 2017

Signs That You’ve Outgrown Github, Part 2: Task Management

In my last post, I introduced a set of features (and failings) that might have you wondering if Github can grow with your team. In this post, I’m talking about tasks, workflow and keeping things moving. Github’s Workflow Is Simple And Cool When you’re starting out, Github’s approach is really helpful. You can create a task …

Posted on Mar 21, 2017

Signs That You’ve Outgrown Github

Github is WONDERFUL. I have used it for a long time now, and it’s great. It’s easy to get started, and especially for one-person projects, it really helps keep things organized.

But as you start to add team members, competing priorities, and overall complexity, something changes. In lots of little ways, Github starts to show that it just wasn’t designed for long-haul software projects, with many team members and a non-trivial workflow.

Posted on Jan 11, 2017

GForge v6.4.3 Released

Today we are happy to announce the immediate availability of GForge Advanced Server v6.4.3.  Other than being a bug fix release, this will likely be our last update to the 6.x series as we intend to ship GForgeNEXT later this year. Important note: For anyone using GForge under the default license, which lets you run GForge AS free …

Posted on Jan 05, 2017

How Many Project Tools Do You Really Need?

In my last post, I talked about some criteria for choosing between all-in-one or best-in-breed tools. Now, I’ll apply those criteria to our product space, and try to show why a unified team collaboration tool makes more sense than what you might be living with now. So, let’s imagine that you’re looking to solve the …

Posted on Dec 22, 2016

The Same Old, Brand-New Argument: All-In-One or Best-Of-Breed?

Introduction For at least the past twenty years, IT folks have been faced with the same basic problem when choosing whether and which products to adopt. The term “Best of Breed” is commonly used to talk about products that offer high quality in a narrow set of features. “All in One” products, on the other …

Posted on Oct 10, 2016

The Weekly Forge: 10/07/2016

The biggest development this past week is work on GForge AS v6.4.3 has started and we anticipate having it available for current customers by the end of this year.  Obviously we’ll continue work on GForgeNEXT which is accurately reflected in the highlight from last week below: Git Server Side Merges – Right now server side …

Posted on Oct 03, 2016

GForgeNEXT Update for 9/30/2016

Beginning this month our team will be giving weekly updates on the GForgeNEXT development.  This won’t be the painful details just the good stuff boiled down to a few talking points. We should be clear that GForgeNEXT is in open beta at so sign-up today! Before we give our first update we’d like to share what exactly …

Posted on Sep 22, 2016

Fall 2016 HackISU Wrap-up

  Last weekend we sponsored our second HackISU Hackathon in Ames, Iowa.  HackISU is run, in part, by both Major League Hacking and HackISU, a student ran organization.  The GForge Group sponsored a prize for “The Best Use of the GForgeNEXT API” and out of all the teams at this fall’s HackISU two demonstrated great …

Posted on Sep 14, 2016

Join Us at HackISU this Weekend!

This weekend The GForge Group will, again, be sponsoring HackISU this weekend up in Ames.  This is a great opportunity for young developers and engineers to have fun and gain experience working with technology. For our part, we are awarding $750 per team member (up to $3,000) to the team that makes the best use of the GForgeNext API. This is similar …

Posted on Jun 27, 2016

Meet the GForge Team: Kyle Goranson

This is a big year for GForge Group — we have redesigned our flagship product, GForge As, and are relaunching it as GForgeNEXT. This Spring we announced that NEXT is now available in free, private beta. Behind the scenes our team of developers has been working many long hours to bring this new product to …

Posted on Apr 20, 2016

The GForgeNEXT Beta Program Expands to Central & South America

español We are happy to announce that the GForgeNEXT Beta Program now supports Spanish. This announcement reaffirms our investment in Central and South America by offering the following benefits: Reduce project cost by eliminating the problems associated with unclear objectives. Improve customer satisfaction by using tools that improve the quality of your software. Eliminate communication …

Posted on Apr 07, 2016

Preview of Git Support in GForgeNEXT

Last week we rolled out a preview of Git support for GForgeNEXT and we are excited to share the first few working screenshots.  Before that, let’s run down the set of Git features supported in GForgeNext: Access Git via HTTPS or SSH Associate tickets to Git commits via commit messages. Change the status of tickets via …

Posted on Mar 09, 2016

GForge v6.4.2 Released

Today we are happy to announce the release of GForge Advanced Server v6.4.2.  This is a primarily a bug fix release a few minor enhancements. Download GForge Advanced Server v6.4.2 Now! Notable Updates in GForge v6.4.2 Project Snapshots – We’ve a number of issues around project export and import.  If you need to move GForge projects between instances you’ll have …

Posted on Feb 17, 2016

HackISU: Intern Job Description

A quick run-down of the skills we’re looking for, and how we’ll put you to use. Come and join a world-class company that supports thousands of project teams around the world.  We’re looking for folks to fill one or both of two categories: First, customer service handling technical issues with customers – sysadmin stuff, configuration, …

Posted on Feb 16, 2016

HackISU: Ideas for Using the GForge API

Last week we announced that we’ll be sponsoring HackISU this weekend up in Ames.  This is a great opportunity for young developers and engineers to have fun and gain experience working with technology. For our part, we are awarding $3,000 to the team that makes the best use of the GForgeNext API which we also recently discussed. …

Posted on Feb 12, 2016

GForge is Sponsoring HackISU 2016

We are happy to announce we are sponsoring HackISU by offering over $3000 in prizes in several different categories.  Plus internships.  And swag.  HackISU is a Hackathon that will be held on the Iowa State University Campus on February 19-21.  This is a great opportunity for budding geeks to hack software, hardware and network.  As …

Posted on Feb 09, 2016

Intro to the GForgeNext API

GForgeNext is the newest incarnation of our long-lived project collaboration tool.  It ties together all of the most important features that teams need to deliver big things – like task tracking, team chat and integrated source control.   And in the next several months, we’ll add a lot more. Next employs a Single Page Application (SPA) front …

Posted on Jan 06, 2016

Announcing the First GForgeNext Beta

Today we are announcing the immediate availability the first GForgeNext beta. With GForgeNext we are taking what we have learned about project collaboration over 15 years and distilling it down to what you need right now. Who is GForgeNext for? This first beta is just that, a beta.  GForgeNext is a redesign of some of the key features …

Posted on Dec 14, 2015

Git Workflow in GForge

While GForge has support for CVS and SVN, most of our customers have moved on to Git.  What gets buried in that integration is our customers have a choice on how to use Git and they can have GForge enforce some basic rules.  Today we are going to address implementing a common Git workflow in GForge. …

Posted on Nov 03, 2015

GForge Next – The API

A couple of weeks ago, Tony shared some screen shots of GForge Next, and talked about how we’re designing it to Get Out of Your Way.  Today, I’d like to talk about the other end of GForge Next – the API side. We’ve Always Had An API It’s true – the current GForge has an API, and it has …

Posted on Oct 19, 2015

Getting Out of Your Way

When I talk to customers about GForge, I often describe it in terms of parenting.  For product managers, their products are their children and good parents see all the untapped potential alongside any rough edges.  Like parents, product managers often spend a disproportionate amount of time playing up their products strengths while downplaying those rough spots. GForge and nearly …

Posted on Oct 05, 2015

Maslow for Startups

Abraham Maslow was a psychologist and professor.  He designed this great hierarchy of human needs: Basically, it says we need to breathe before bothering with staying warm.  And we need to eat before worrying about having any friends.  And we really can’t spend any time following our dreams until we’re clothed, fed, warm, have some …

Posted on Aug 12, 2015

They Really Can’t, But You Can

Read this (now deleted) blog post by a dev at Oracle: No, You Really Can’t There is so much wrong with that post.  But I’m in a hurry and don’t have time to put down 3000 words deconstructing Oracle’s entire business model and world-view.  Instead, I’ll just explain how we do the exact opposite. GForge offers …

Posted on Jul 24, 2015

GForge v6.4.1 Released

Today we are happy to announce the immediate availability of GForge Advanced Server v6.4.1.  This is a bug fix release that also includes minor enhancements. Download GForge Advanced Server v6.4.1 Now! New Features in GForge v6.4.1 Docman – We made a few updates to Docman in 6.4.1 including the ability to mass upload documents by uploading a single, …

Posted on Nov 13, 2014

GForge 6.4.0 Released

Today we are happy to announce the immediate availability of GForge Advanced Server v6.4.0.  This is a feature release that also includes minor bug fixes and enhancements. Download GForge Advanced Server v6.4.0 Now! New Features in GForge v6.4.0 Sprints – GForge now ships with support for Sprints.  Agile shops can create sprints, manage tracker items within Sprints …

Posted on Oct 22, 2014

GForge Next: Updated Screenshots, Kanban, Tasks, Chat

We recently gave an early preview of GForge Next which included a chance to sign-up for early access to GForge Next.  Today we are keeping the ball rolling by sharing new screenshots of our new Kanban feature, tasks and chat.  Please follow along as we share our ideas and you are encouraged to help us hit …

Posted on Oct 09, 2014

GForge Live Chat Support

This is a quick note to let our customers know we now offer support via a live chat.  We are providing this by leveraging our existing chat feature in GForge .  You can still manage your support tickets via our online system, however, we think our customers will find live chat as a great alternative.  Also, we …

Posted on Oct 03, 2014

Preview of GForge Next!

This is an exciting time for us at The GForge Group.  As we hinted in our preview of the upcoming GForge v6.4.0 release we have been working on a re-design of GForge and we’re happy to give you a glimpse of that work and give you limited, early access when the first version is ready. To …

Posted on Sep 23, 2014

Preview of GForge v6.4.0

We have been pretty quiet this summer regarding the work progress we’ve made on GForge but that is going to change dramatically.  We will be making two big releases before the end of the year and in the coming weeks and we’ll be sharing all the details here. The first big development is the work we’ve done on the next …

Posted on Jun 09, 2014

PHP Contract Opportunity

The GForge Group has two open contract position for PHP developers to help with improving GForge Advanced Server and providing customizations for our customers. This position is expected to last approximately 3 months. All submissions received at opportunities@gforgegroup.com on or before June 20th, 2014 will be considered. What We are Looking For Work from your home or office. …

Posted on Apr 17, 2014

GForge 6.3.1 Released

Today we are happy to announce the immediate availability of GForge Advanced Server v6.3.1.  This is primarily a bugfix release and the highlights include fixes for the Support Tracker feature and some minor security enhancements. Download GForge Advanced Server v6.3.1 Now! Support Tracker Fixes If you haven’t already tried out the Support feature in GForge …

Posted on Apr 08, 2014

How Valuable Are You?

A long time ago, I learned some great criteria for taking or keeping any job.  I mean, like, a long time ago.  Like, before Google. Here they are, in random order – apply your own prioritization: Will you be successful? That is, will you deliver projects, make money, become famous, get the girl, whatever it …

Posted on Apr 01, 2014

GForge: What’s Next?

The Pitch Won’t you make some time to come help us build and perfect GForge Next?  Just leave a comment – we’ll be recruiting First Dozen candidates through the end of April, and would love to hear from you.  If you can’t make it for May, then we’ll add you to the invite list for …

Posted on Mar 28, 2014

Engineering Problem, or Tool Blinders?

Tony and I met with a former co-worker early this year, to talk about his use of MongoDB.  For some reason, they thought Tony was an authority on this.  I just came along for the lunch. The Question The gist of the discussion was this:  how best to store large binary objects in the database?  …

Posted on Feb 14, 2014

Code Upcycling: Evolving Legacy Code

Last October our engineering team met up in Buenos Aires, Argentina and CTO, Michael Tutty, talked about the challenges of improving legacy code.  Developers are notoriously guilty of insisting a full rewrite of code, particularly when it wasn’t their code to start with.  But what if that code is already to market and generating revenue? …

Posted on Feb 13, 2014

Support Driven Development – Making Support a 1st Class Service

Start-ups often struggle with navigating the sea of development tools and the focus is almost always on the basics of source code management and issue tracking.  Some roll their own point-based solutions by spinning up their own Git server and installing some open source issue tracker while others head to the cloud and try to …

Posted on Feb 10, 2014

Real-World Scenarios, Episode 1: Changecause

The folks at Changecause were good enough to publish a blog post about their efforts to make bug reporting easier for people outside their team.  It was a clever solution for gathering issues from end-users, but there are also a few trade-offs at work.  GForge satisfies the same requirements in a much more elegant (and …

Posted on Feb 06, 2014

Campfire Running Out?

Basecamp, the company formerly called 37signals, has recently announced they are focusing on their CRM solution also named Basecamp.  The big takeaway from their announcement is that many of their other products, most notably Campfire, is in a period of uncertainty.  While users vet their options we wanted to take a moment to highlight the …

Posted on Dec 06, 2013

GForge AS v6.3.0 Released

Today we are happy to announce the immediate availability of GForge Advanced Server v6.3.0.  This release is a major release with a few bug and security fixes included. Important: With this release we are dropping support for the entire 5.x series.  If you are running a 5.x version of GForge you will need to make …

Posted on Oct 24, 2013

Raytheon: Not Enough New Cyber-Security Talent

GForge customer Raytheon just posted this article in their newsroom about the lack of cyber-security workers, not only in the immediate pipeline, but all the way up the chain – our high school kids aren’t even being told it’s a career. Given the security hoops we jump through for them, I’m inclined to believe them. …

Posted on Sep 19, 2013

Business Development Internship

The GForge Group is looking for a part-time, US-based college intern to assist in our business development and sales efforts.  Join our world-class company and help us expand the visibility of our product to project teams around the world.  What We’re Looking For: Students pursuing a degree in business or technology related fields. As a …

Posted on Sep 16, 2013

GForge AS Makes File Uploads Easy…

We’ve been hard at work improving much of GForge Advanced Server and some changes reach deep into our product.  One great example of this is the new way you can upload files to your GForge instance.  File uploads have always been possible in our Docman, File Release System (FRS), Wiki and Tracker.  When we gave …

Posted on Sep 12, 2013

The GForge Group Enters Public/Private Partnership with Rose-Hulman

We are happy to announce The GForge Group entered their first-ever private/public partnership with Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Specifically, an agreement has been reached to establish a special mentorship program with Computer Science and Software Engineering students at Rose-Hulman’s campus in Terre Haute, Ind. During the school year, Rose-Hulman students will be divided into teams of four or …

Posted on Sep 11, 2013

GForge Live Discussion (aka Chat)

One of the big new features in 6.2.1 was the Live view on our Discussions plugin.  It’s basically a chat room, about a project, a document, or just about any other object on your GForge site.  All of the conversations are automatically saved as Discussion Threads for later viewing, and are searchable along with everything …

Posted on Sep 03, 2013

GForge in One Minute

So, Intern Olivia Treu recently headed back to school…but she left behind a whole raft of how-to screencasts about GForge features.  So many, in fact, that we had her created a YouTube channel to keep them all organized. Since we’re rapidly wrapping up the 6.3 release, I’m going to highlight a new screencast or two …

Posted on Sep 03, 2013

What To Expect in GForge 6.3

Summer has really flown by. We’ve been so busy adding features and fixes for GForge 6.3, I didn’t even get to the State Fair this year. As we begin winding down, I thought I’d take a few minutes and share the current list of what’s done now and what’s left to do for our release …

Posted on Jul 10, 2013

Looking Ahead: GForge v6.3.0 to Provide Support Tools

GForge Advanced Server already provides your projects issue and bug tracking, wikis, live discussions, document management and source code management.  Starting with the release of v6.3.0 we will leverage many of those pre-existing features in a way that provides all the tools you need to deliver outstanding support to your customers and stakeholders. Before we …

Posted on Jul 01, 2013

PHP Contract Opportunity

The GForge Group has an open contract position for a PHP developer to help with improving GForge Advanced Server and providing customizations for our customers. This position is expected to last just over 3 months. All submissions received at opportunities@gforgegroup.com on or before July 12th, 2013 will be considered. What We are Looking For Work …

Posted on Jun 25, 2013

Welcome Intern, Olivia Treu

This summer has been full of non-stop action as The GForge Group released v6.2.1, started work on v6.3.0 and began planning a major release in v7.0.0.  We’ve been keenly aware that our documentation, blog and social media interactions have lagged behind so we’ve hired a new intern to help us in those areas, Olivia Treu …

Posted on Jun 14, 2013

End-of-Life for GForge 5.x Series

With the release of GForge AS 6.2.1 work has begun on version 6.3.0 and we have started planning the next point release, 7.0.  The GForge 6.x series has been live for two years and in the meantime we’ve continued to support the 5.x series.  We have realized we can’t effectively plan for version 7.0, continue …

Posted on May 28, 2013

GForge AS v6.2.1 Released

Today we are happy to announce the immediate availability of GForge Advanced Server v6.2.1.  This release is primarily a bug-fix release with a few minor, but powerful features added in.  Here are some of the key updates to v.6.2.1: Download GForge Advanced Server v6.2.1 Now! Improved Git Integration Git integration prior to v6.2.1 was pretty …

Posted on Apr 17, 2013

Traits are Includes!

As part of the Great New Code To Come (some call it GForge6.3), we’ve been looking at several improvements to our technology stack, not the least of which will be moving to PHP 5.4 or 5.5. Traits are an interesting new construct, neither Interface nor Base Class, that I’ve been trying to factor into the …

Posted on Apr 12, 2013

Welcome Intern, Rick Button

This week has been exciting for us a The GForge Group.  We’re wrapping up work on GForge AS v6.2.1 and have broken ground on v6.3.0.  However, more exciting news that we’ve hired our first ever intern, Rick Button. Rick is a freshman at Purdue University.  I can’t begin to tell you how surprised we were …

Posted on Apr 11, 2013

Work on GForge v6.3.0 Started

As I write this we are putting the finishing touches on GForge Advanced Server v6.2.1.  I’ll share a few of the things you can expect from that release in a separate post, however, I wanted to share our plans for v6.3.0 which our engineering team started on today. Like any software shop, we take support …

Posted on Mar 25, 2013

Join The GForge Group As An Intern!

GForge Group is looking for a part-time college intern to provide first and second-level technical support to our customers.  Come and join a world-class company that supports thousands of project teams around the world.   What we’re looking for: Work from home 12-20 hours per week, Monday through Friday.  Initial term will be through the …

Posted on Feb 24, 2013

On the Importance of the Team

This week, our City School District handed down an unpopular decision – to close a charter-type middle school. I have a friend whose son attends the school, and they both spent a lot of time and energy trying to change the School Board’s minds about the closure. I was very impressed with their effort but …

Posted on Feb 21, 2013

Screencast: GForge Advanced Server’s Chat

The recent release of GForge Advanced Server v6.2.0 now support chat.  Learn why we felt we had to add chat and how your teams can get the most out of it:

Posted on Feb 05, 2013

Quality Improvements on Untestable Code

Introduction

I bought The GForge Group just over 18 months ago and it didn’t take long before I realized the codebase for GForge Advanced Server (AS) was woefully out-of-date, and impossible to test. Inheriting code in need of some TLC wasn’t anything new to me – but back in my consulting days I was usually able to justify the need to rewrite a system, or I would decide to leave the code alone doing as few updates as required. Our customers want to see improvements in our product and its initial quality and, for the sanity of our engineering team, we needed to innovate while iterating quicker. Putting our customer needs first (and that of our company), we had to eliminate any talk about a from-scratch rewrite. The end game is that our code needs to get a testable state including the use of not only phpUnit and Selenium but also Jenkins to fully automate our build process. The bottom line is we had to find ways to incrementally improve our code quality over time.

Posted on Jan 28, 2013

GForge v6.2.0: Live Discussions, Improved Tracker Queries and More

Today, GForge Advanced Server delivers Live Discussions, Improved Tracker Queries and more.  Here is a quick run-down of what’s new. Get GForge Advanced Server v6.2.0 now! Live Discussions Live Discussions gives product managers a pulse on the their projects while giving teams a great way to collaborate but, most of all, chat makes collaboration fun! …

Posted on Sep 10, 2012

What to Expect from GForge Advanced Server v6.2.0

Last week we were able to release GForge Advanced Server (AS) v6.1.1 which was a bug fix release and we’ve already got a jump on development of GForge AS 6.2.0.  One thing we want to make clear is our engineering team is focusing on key huge initiatives simultaneously.  The first is v6.2.0 which we will …

Posted on Sep 05, 2012

GForge Advanced Server v6.1.1 Released

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of GForge Advanced Server v6.1.1.  Thought this is nothing more than a bugfix release, we are encouraging all customers on 6.1.0 to upgrade because it fixes a number of issues related to the revamp document manager.  Many of the fixes are focused on fixes browser specific issues …

Posted on Jul 25, 2012

Customer Git Repository of v6.1.0 for GForge Advanced Server Customers.

We’re happy to announce that it will be easier than ever for customers who have customized their own GForge AS instance to keep their changes in sync with our current stable branch.  To do this we have created a Git repository for customers that we sync each night with our lastest stable release.  This means …

Posted on Jul 24, 2012

GForge Advanced Server v6.1.0 Released!

After two betas and some great interactions between our customers and engineers we are proud to offer the stable version of GForge Advanced Server v6.1.0. There isn’t anything new in terms of features since our first beta other than bug fixes so be sure to read about what is new.  The source install ZIP package …

Posted on Jul 18, 2012

v6.1.0 Demo and Roadmap Planning Webinar Available

Over the past couple of weeks we had a series of three webinars where people and organizations interested GForge Advanced Server could see v6.1.0 in action and to discuss our development roadmap.  We want to thank the dozens of customers that joined one of the webinars and worked with us to make sure our development …

Posted on Jul 11, 2012

GForge Advanced Server v6.1.0 Beta 2 Released!

We’re happy to announce the availability of the second beta of v6.1.0.  This has a number of bugfixes to the document manager plugin along with minor fixes to other areas.  We are hoping this represents our last beta before the official release of v6.1.0.  As with the first beta, it is not for use on …

Posted on Jun 27, 2012

GForge Advanced Server Webinars Scheduled

We wanted to let customers of GForge Advanced Server know that we have scheduled three webinars in July where we will give a quick demonstration of the new features and enhancements in version 6.1.0 and to share a draft of our development roadmap. After the demo we want to cover the development roadmap, giving our …

Posted on Jun 16, 2012

GForge Advanced Server v6.1.0 Beta 1 Released!

We’re happy to announce the availability of the first beta of v6.1.0.  The key update in the release is the complete revamp of the document manager which includes HTML5 support for drag-n-drop. We’ve also wired in drag-n-drop support to the plugins including the tracker, wiki, etc.  You can head over to our download page now.  Please …

Posted on Jun 15, 2012

Introducing a Daemon Process in GForge Advanced Server v6.1.0

We’ve been hard at work putting the finishing touches on our next GForge Advanced Server Release, version 6.1.0 (due out in Beta soon0.  One of the notable changes we wanted to make sure everybody knows about is the addition of the GForge daemon process.  This release we spent some time getting our “house” in order by fixing …

Posted on Jun 07, 2012

Preview of Docman in v6.1

First the bad news. This 6.1 release of GForge Advanced Server is a complete revamp of the document manager, its user interface and it includes a new UI widget that is used in any of the other plugins inside of GForge Advanced Server that provides drag-n-drop support for files which can be used in things like blog posts, tracker items, etc. The Docman update also makes extensive use of jQuery which means it is AJAX-ified giving users a richer experience with less page loads and a more responsive feel. Given all this, we’ve made the tough decision this next release will need a beta cycle and, to help us test, we will be deploying the beta to for those users and we’ll release the beta to our download page on

Posted on Jun 04, 2012

The Power of Project Templates

A little known fact about me is I actually started off as GForge Advanced Server customer before I joined the GForge Group.  That experience has given me some insights into the tool that are often hard to obtain from the vendor’s side of the table.  Specifically I learned quickly what I loved about GForge Advanced …

Posted on Apr 30, 2012

Details on Upcoming Release of GForge Advanced Server v6.1.0

It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything on the progress of our next release of GForge Advanced Server so we wanted to take a minute to let our customers know what has been cooking in our labs.  In some of our last posts we hinted at some improvements and new features in GForge Advanced …

Posted on Feb 03, 2012

GForge Advanced Server 6.0.1 Released!

We are releasing GForge Advanced Server 6.0.1 today which is a security and bugfix release. To help aid customers in receiving timely information about security related issues and releases we have started a new mailing list you can subscribe to. More information after the hop…

Posted on Jan 04, 2012

What to Expect from GForge Advanced Server in 2012!

To all our valued customers we want to wish you all best wishes in 2012! Now that the New Year is here, we wanted to take a quick minute to share our plans for GForge Advanced Server for 2012 and beyond. As many of you know Tim Perdue, the founder of GForge, passed away last …

Posted on Sep 20, 2011

GForge AS v6.0 Released!

First and foremost we at the GForge Group want to apologize for the long delay in getting version 6.0 out.  For those who don’t know, we lost our leader Tim Perdue after a long battle with cancer. As a growing business, we at GForge struggled a bit in adjusting to this newa and it delayed …

Posted on Sep 20, 2011

On Losing A Pioneer

Last Friday, September 16th GForge Group said goodbye to Tim Perdue who passed away peacefully in a Des Moines area hospice with his family by his side. At 37, Tim’s passing came too soon and was, frankly, unfair leaving all of us who have crossed his path feeling pain and hatred for the cancer that …

Posted on Jun 16, 2011

New blog plugin on Gforge 6

The upcoming Gforge 6 release will include a project blog plugin (which replaces the previous news section) and a new user blog plugin, enabling users to easily post  articles on each user’s page. For a project blog, only the project admin is allowed to create new posts. Simply browse to Blog->Admin and click on Add …

Posted on May 06, 2011

MS Project GForge AS plugin

Today we present you the MS Project plugin for GForge AS. a full featured MS Project – GFOrge AS integration, that  lets you connect to a GForge tracker, work on the tracker items from within MS Project, and then sync to the GForge server to update your changes.  It allows you to sync tasks in …

Posted on Mar 17, 2011

GForge AS Eclipse Plugin

In this post we present our plugin for GForge AS, which seamlesly integrates with the Eclipse environment and lets you access GForge’s server trackers and documents directly from your work environment. Installing it is straightforward, just decompress the distributable package in the eclipse plugin folder, then start Eclipse. You will see a “GForge” menu entry. …

Posted on Feb 11, 2011

What is new in GForge 6 AS

We review the major new features that will bring the upcoming GForge AS 6, the next major release of GForge AS. Hierarchical Trackers: Update on the powerful tracking system already existing in GForge AS. Lets you structure tasks as a tree. Tracker items can have subitems, with no limits. You can create trees of any …

Posted on Jan 19, 2011

An introduction to plugin development for Gforge

In this article we will cover the basic steps needed to write a simple plugin for Gforge AS, the HelloWorld plugin. There will be no real world use for this “dummy” plugin, but it will serve to our demonstration purposes. You can find the full source in this tar file or you can checkout the …

Posted on Nov 23, 2010

An Introduction to Workflow Automation in GForge AS

Usually, in a collaborative environment, a task unit goes through a process until it’s complete. Some task types might go through some intermediate steps, and on each step a certain action needs to be taken by the assigned person. This process that a task goes through, passing through different phases/states, the people involved and the …

Posted on Oct 15, 2010

mod_auth_gforge 2, an apache module for Gforge AS

mod_auth_gforge2 (MAG2) is an apache2 module for controlling subversion DAV access based on Gforge AS permissions. It integrates smoothly with GForge AS, and supports role access and ACL checking. MAG2 is based in the previous MAG for Gforge 4.x series. Installation Pre-compiled binaries for RHEL4/5, as well as the source tar (for compilation on other …

Posted on Sep 15, 2010

Preview of new plugin: an user calendar

The next major release of Gforge AS will include a new plugin: the user calendar plugin. Users will access the calendar trough My Stuff->Calendar. Besides events created by the user, the calendar will show starting/ending tasks assigned to the user in the specified time frame. Here it is a screenshot of the month view (please …

Posted on Aug 10, 2010

Preview: The New Hierarchical Tracker Items

The next major release of GForge will include several new important features, including the Hierarchical Tracker Items.  Built upon the existing tracking subsystem, now tracker items can be structured in a tree fashion.  A tracker item can be assigned to any other tracker item,  becoming a subitem of it. The new Tracer Item Browse view: …

Posted on Jul 12, 2010

Developing with Agile methodologies and GForge

GForge provides the tools to support Agile development methodolgies by using project templates for different types of methodologies (currently, Scrum and eXtreme Programming are supported). The specific project templates are available for free at the GForge website here. There is a template for each methodology. To install the templates in your GForge server, log in …

Posted on Jun 16, 2010

Code search in Gforge AS 5.7

One of the new features of Gforge AS 5.7 is the support for source code indexing/search using doxygen and tsearch2 in both Subversion and CVS repositories. In this article, we’ll go trough a complete example to show the highlights of this feature. Setup In order to use this feature, you’ll need doxygen. You can get …

Posted on Jun 01, 2010

GForge goes Mobile for iPhone and iPad

We are currently developing a client GForge Application for one of the most popular mobile devices platforms, iPhone and iPad. GForge mobile application will have the following features: • User management • Project Browser • Tracker Browser • Tracker Item View and Modification • Tracker Item Creation Fast communication and information sharing are the keystones …

Posted on Apr 21, 2010

New features in GForge 5.7

GForge 5.7 was released on April 20th and it sports several fixes and new features. Some of the most interesting are: Item tagging is present throughout the system, and you can now search for items by tags. Tabs administration: you can specify which tabs will be shown in trackers, documents and forums. A project’s source …

Posted on Apr 16, 2010

GForge AS provides support for Visual Studio 2010

Microsoft has just released Visual Studio 2010, which includes .NET Framework 4.0.  GForge concurrently launched  its plugin for the new Visual Studio edition.   The plugin seamlessly integrates to the VS IDE, allowing the developer quick and convenient access to trackers and documents on the GForge AS server. How do you install the plugin? The plugin …

Posted on Apr 15, 2010

git support in GForge

Note: If you’re looking for git support in GForge AS, up to and including 6.4.5, please contact GForge Support for assistance.  Documentation for GForge AS is being retired in favor of the current product. GForge Next provides full support for the git SCM (Source Code Management) tool, in addition to SVN and CVS. Unlike SVN …

Posted on Jul 09, 2008

Webproxy Plugin

GForge Group developed a proxy plugin for the DSO National Labs in Singapore and they have agreed to release it on gforge.com in source code form so others can use it. The plugin lets you configure a new tab in your project that captures in content from a separate website. In this case, it was …

Posted on Jul 09, 2008

Cruise Control Wiki Page

GForge Group has built a CruiseControl plugin into GForge AS. CruiseControl is a framework for continuous build process. The integration with GForge AS includes real-time build status for and automatic opening of bug tickets, and it’s accomplished by installing a GForge Publisher Plugin in the build machine. CruiseControl integration for GForge AS is based on …