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:

  1. Git Server Side Merges – Right now server side merges work between any two branches except when the destination branch is master. Turns out the is a bug with Git itself and we already have a patch from the Git development team and we’ll continue testing that out.
  2. Continuous Integration – We’ve begun designing the mocks required for building a Continuous Integration dashboard for all GForgeNEXT projects using Jenkins. This will complete our vision of making the integration between GForgeNEXT and CI systems tighter which reflects how integral they are to software teams.
  3. GForgeNEXT iOS – The first view for the GForgeNEXT iOS app has been stubbed out and work will continue over the coming months.
  4. Dependency Management – When a ticket has predecessors (i.e. blocking dependents) when those tickets are taken care of GForgeNEXT will notify the assignee and submitter of the ticket that work can begin on that ticket.  Those notifications will happen with growls which are also sent via push notifications via Adroid/iOS application. This is a big step towards helping PMs and project leads with automated dependency management.
  5. Improved Link Handling in Docman – Currently in 6.4.2 and prior the links to documents in docman explicitly ping to the most current version (i.e. version 7). The problem is if you email that or include it in a ticket or wiki entry that version may eventually be replaced with newer ones.  We’ve made it so the links in docman will always give users the most current version.  Don’t worry you can still explicitly send the link to a specific version of a file if you want.
  6. A handful of bug fixes for v6.4.3 are being actively worked on.