XPlanner-plus
XPlanner-plus is an open source tool, commonly used by agile teams for bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management. XPlanner-plus is based on XPlanner.
History
XPlanner-plus is based on Xplanner, which has been developed from 2004. The development of XPlanner-plus has started from August 2009.
There are a lot of changes have been made since then:
1. New design;
2. Email notifications for tasks' status;
3. Regenerate burn down charts functionality;
4. Xplanner is moved to maven build script instead of ant;
5. Updated jars dependencies.
From small changes: organized links, imported unit tests from xplanner 0.8, fixed few bugs.
License
XPlanner-plus is free open source project and distributed under GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 3.0 (LGPLv3.).
Architecture
XPlanner-plus is written in Java, using Spring, Hibernate and Struts.
Development plan
Features development.
- Develop Customizable Dashboard;
- Installation for Windows;
- Create additional fields: "Story Points", "Business Value", "Versions/Release planning";
- customizable list of values (statuses for stories, tasks);
- drag and drop stories;
- Product Backlog;
- Advanced search with Filters;
- set of properties, which allow to configure the behavior of XPlanner+;
- button "Redraw charts" for admin, as now charts are updating only once a day. (developed)
Technical development.
- remove Struts Spring plugin (done)
- improve build script to support several configurations
- upgrade dependencies (in ProgresS)
- upgrade to use Hibernate annotations and migration to Hibernate 3.