iceScrum Forums Discuss on iceScrum

Hello,

Thanks a lot for your interest in contributing to iceScrum!

The current released version, iceScrum R6, is rather difficult to setup and will be deprecated by iceScrum R7 in the upcoming months. The whole front-end and large parts of the backend have changed in iceScrum R7 so I would not recommend investing in iceScrum R6.

We currently focus on iceScrum R7 development and we don’t have the resources to facilitate and support community developments yet.

Can you tell us about the additional features you would like to implement?

Thanks for your feedback.

You are right, we have been talking about iceScrum R7 for a long time. It took many more iterations than what we expected but we did not want to rush into when defining the ground for the future of the tool. Also, we stopped writing newsletters for a while and we rather focused on blog posts in addition to better content on the website. We are actually focusing all our efforts on iceScrum R7, here is a recent blog post about iceScrum R7: https://www.icescrum.com/blog/a-bright-future-for-icescrum/

For the moment our policy regarding source code is exactly the same as before, that means that all the iceScrum “community” source code is freely available on GitHub. Sources for iceScrum R7 is actually on the master branches of our repositories: https://github.com/icescrum/iceScrum.

Contributing to iceScrum R6 required a deep understanding of the custom architecture that we designed at a time where no good public alternative existed. We are building iceScrum R7 on top of modern and well defined technology and contributions in the form of extensions / plugins was in our mind from the beginning so contributions should be way easier.

A public beta version in expected to be available online within a week (at first we will not release standalone versions). However we will probably wait until it is production ready before providing tools (extension templates / documentation…) to facilitate contributions.

Recording the time spent to actually develop a task is a topic we discussed a lot and we will be glad to exchange with you about that when we will be less busy!

You are right, the version is important. We use Grails 2.x, the latest being Grails is 2.5.4. It should build fine and you can get a .war file by using the grails war command. You can then run this .war in a Tomcat server as explained here: https://www.icescrum.com/documentation/application-server/#application-server_1

Unfortunately setting up a full development environment is way more complicated than that. As I told you, we will work on that as soon as we have the time to do so, which means after the release of iceScrum 7. The preferred way to contribute to iceScrum will be via Grails plugins. We will provide a plugin template and explain how to hook into existing iceScrum features. The plumbing for that already works but it will probably change until we have ported all the iceScrum Pro features.

By having an account on our website, you should be able to use the beta! Just follow the link in the banner or open this link http://beta.icescrum.com