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Products.Poi (1.2.13)
- Products.Poi download link: http://plone.org/products/poi/releases
- Homepage of Products.Poi: http://plone.org/products/poi
- Products.Poi repository: http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/Products.Poi/
- Description source: http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/Products.Poi/trunk/Products/Poi/README.txt
Poi is an issue tracker product for Plone. It has three overarching aims:
- Provide the default tracker for open source software projects on http://plone.org
- Be simple and attractive whilst providing the most commonly needed issue tracking functionality.
- Optionally integrate with the PloneSoftwareCenter to allow individual products to have their own issue trackers
Poi is not and will not be a track-anything-and-everything tracker, a help desk product or anything else. If Poi is too simple for your needs, you may want to look at something like PloneCollectorNG.
Usage
Add a Tracker, and use the "state" menu to open it for submissions.
The tracker front pages allows you to browse for issues by release, state or area, as well as search for issues. Note that if you are not tracking software releases, you can leave the list of "releases" empty, and organisation by release will be turned off. The fields for areas and issue types come pre-configured with simple values that presume you are tracking software bugs. You can change these to whatever you want.
Once you have set up the tracker, add Issues inside, and Responses inside Issues. Anyone can add responses to issues with the default workflow. Responses from tracker managers (as configured on the root tracker object) and the original submitter are colour coded to make them easier to pick out. When adding a response as a tracker manager, you can change the state, importance or assignment of an issue.
If email notification is enabled in the root tracker object, managers will get an email when there are new issues and responses, optionally via a mailing list. Issue submitters will also get emails upon issue responses. Additionally, when an issue is marked as "resolved" by a tracker manager, the submitter will receive an email asking him or her to mark the issue as confirmed closed.
To use with the PloneSoftwareCenter, install PSC and then install Poi. This will ensure PoiPscTracker is added to the list of allowed content types in portal_types/PSCProject. You can then add Trackers inside a project in the software center. The trackers will function in the same way as regular trackers, but will use releases from the software center project instead of a manually defined list.
For a look at how the various workflow states of an issue are connected, take a look at the attachment added by bethor to this issue: http://plone.org/products/poi/issues/179
