[p4] Re: Perforce defect tracking integration alpha test sites

[Richard Brooksby]

Please contact me before the end of this week if you are interested 
in being an alpha site.

At 2000-09-28 17:33 +0100, Richard Brooksby wrote:

>Would you be interested in being an alpha test site for the Perforce 
>Defect Tracking Integration 
><http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/p4dti/>?
>
>The idea of the alpha programme is to demonstrate the integration to 
>some selected customers, mainly to get their feedback on the 
>requirements.  In other words, we want to ask "Is this going to be 
>what you need?".  We intend to produce an alpha release in 2000-10, 
>so we could do this in late 2000-10 or early 2000-11.  At that stage 
>the software will need hand-holding, but will be essentially 
>demonstrable.  We'll also have outline user and administrator 
>documentation.
>
>The alpha will involve us coming to your site, giving a presentation 
>about the integration, installing and configuring the software, 
>giving some basic training and getting some of your staff to try it 
>out, all the while gathering feedback.  I think it could be done in 
>a day or two, if things are well organized.  There would be probably 
>be one person from Ravenbrook (representing Perforce) and one from 
>TeamShare.
>
>At this stage we'll have an integration with TeamShare's TeamTrack 
><http://www.teamshare.com/>.  Work on Bugzilla integration is 
>starting, but we don't expect to have anything ready for testing by 
>late 2000-10.
>
>The benefit to you will be that you get to influence the integration 
>to meet your needs, and you get to see how it works so that you can 
>be ready to use it when it becomes available.
>
>We only expect to choose two or three sites to visit for alpha 
>testing.  Priority will be given to sites we can reach easily from 
>Cambridge, UK, Colorado Springs, CO, or San Francisco, CA.  Priority 
>will be given to existing TeamShare customers with established 
>workflow and defect databases.
>
>We will require a serious commitment of time from your organization 
>and especially from your development and SQA management.
>
>Please let me know if you'd like to be involved.
>--
>Richard Brooksby <rb at ravenbrook.com>          Senior Consultant
>Ravenbrook Limited, 51 St. Andrew's Road, Cambridge CB4 1DH, UK
>Tel +44 1223 519215    Fax +44 870 1641432   www.ravenbrook.com