I’ve been dabbling with a “river of news” or activity stream for many months at VersionOne, largely to satisfy my own desire to have a more global view of things happening in the system. We’ve decided to release this for use, as open source. It’s built on the Titanium Application Platform for multiple operating systems (win/mac/nix). The rendering tech is Safari and the application is implemented in Javascript (with JSDoc!).
It’s worth noting that this application was built by me, the UX guy, at VersionOne, not the development team.
That said, here’s what it does:
- Presents an activity stream of recent changes in Stories, Defects, Tasks and Changesets (e.g. checkins)
- A “My” view which presents your recent activity
- Notifications with Growl (osx / win) of recent changes
- Minimize to tray / doc
Thanks to VersionOne for supporting this 20% style project and to the LizardFeeder Mozilla project for inspiring it.
VersionOne Enterprise & Team users can install the beta application from Appcelerator hosting. Upon launch it will ask you to configure your VersionOne instance URL.
The application is open source, unsupported by VersionOne, and hosted at github.
