Topic: [candidate] Trigger a Transition when dragging a card between lanes

Suzie’s last comment is correct. We will be looking at bringing the concepts of the grid and transitions together in an upcoming release, and we look forward to your feedback on automated transitions.

MingleMingle is a command line toolkit for plug-in/API developers created by Mingle’s own Li Xiao. It is a work in progress that I’ll let Li Xiao describe fully, but it’s intended to be a tool for those learning to use the API’s. At this time, we would not recommend this as a supported means to enforce your team’s workflow.

More information on MingleMingle can be found at: http://rubyforge.org/projects/minglemingle/ (the link above points to the docs), and any questions about the project are best posted under the Mingle API forum located at: http://studios.thoughtworks.com/discussion/forums/10

Topic: [candidate] Trigger a Transition when dragging a card between lanes

Another thing you could do in the meantime is use something like http://minglemingle.rubyforge.org/ or hook directly into the REST API.

Mingle Mingle is a nice command line interface to the REST API written by a ThoughtWorker.

Having this same desire, our devs now use it on the command line when checking in to automatically do transitions for cards. Basically, we use the “svnci” command to plug in the card and the transition we want to run and mm takes care of the rest. It works wonders for the devs who don’t even have to remember to update their work in mingle anymore.

Topic: [candidate] Trigger a Transition when dragging a card between lanes

Hi all

Another quick tip for ‘the meantime’ – you can set properties to be transition only which means they can not be changed by dragging and dropping the cards in the grid view. This enforces the workflow that you want but sadly limits the use of the fun drag and drop functionality.

Watch this space for news on automated transitions….

- Suzie

Topic: Running Mingle on existing Apache (so we dont have to open ports)

You can try to use ajp instead of plain http, this could speed things up, but we are currently using http proxying on the production server and we aren’t suffering from noticeable performance issues.

Topic: Running Mingle on existing Apache (so we dont have to open ports)

Ok – I found the problem was I copy/pasted this code – there is a space in between http and ://

I have it working… But, it is super slow. Anyone else experience this? It took 45-60 seconds to bring up the login page, and 2 mins for the first project page. If I access Mingle directly on port 81, it is much much snappier.

Thanks,

Mike

Topic: Running Mingle on existing Apache (so we dont have to open ports)

Has this been tested/works for anyone else?

When using this syntax, I get

service httpd start
Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 1014 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
ProxyPass can not have a path when defined in a location
/>[root@localhost mingle]#

Topic: Running Mingle on existing Apache (so we dont have to open ports)

This has been fixed in 2.0.1 and here is the instruction

In Mingle

edit config/jetty.xml, look for the line ( Unless you have modified this file already, you should be able to find this on line 69 )

Before you edit this file, please make a backup

<Set name="contextPath">/</Set>

and change it to

<Set name="contextPath">/mingle</Set>

In Apache

Listen 1.2.3.4:80
NameVirutalHost 1.2.3.4:80
<Virtualhost 1.2.3.4:80>
  Servername mingle.example.com
  ProxyPass /mingle http://localhost:8080/mingle
  ProxyPassReverse /mingle http://localhost:8080/mingle
</virtualhost>

Topic: [candidate] Trigger a Transition when dragging a card between lanes

Agree, this is important. If you need transitions, you have to remind everyone not drag and drop across lanes.

Topic: [candidate] Trigger a Transition when dragging a card between lanes

I’d love to see this as well, it would be great to have transitions automatically fire.

Topic: Running Mingle on existing Apache (so we dont have to open ports)

Ah, maybe you want to take it off of here, in that case – http://studios.thoughtworks.com/support

That indicates that it is a working/supported solution.

Regards,

Mike

Topic: Running Mingle on existing Apache (so we dont have to open ports)

Mike, we realized the issue and mingle team is working for a fix on the coming release. stay tune and sorry for the confusion

Topic: Running Mingle on existing Apache (so we dont have to open ports)

Barrow… I finally got around to trying this – no luck.

I could get Apache to serve up (proxy) the pages, but no formatting or images came across, and, Mingle tries to redirect to /mingle a few times that I couldn’t get around.

Anyone got this running successfully? Anything different with Mingle 2.0 (I tried this with 1.1).

Cheers,

Mike

Topic: [candidate] Trigger a Transition when dragging a card between lanes

We are currently investigating providing automated transitions which will help handle this case.

In the meantime, remember that if you click on a card pop-up, you get the valid transitions for the card and can then run the transition from the view. We recognize that it’s not as fun as dragging, but it’s almost as easy to do in the meantime.

Topic: [candidate] Trigger a Transition when dragging a card between lanes

As a Dev I would like to have a transition triggered automatically when dragging a card from one lane to another so that I do not have to go into the card and update multiple properties after I’ve forgotten to use the transition

Dragging cards between the lanes is great! Simple user interface that makes sense. But because we’ve got tons of fields that need to get updated (status, date, user, iteration, etc) we’re forced to use the transition – which makes dragging between lanes useless.

• Have a “default” transition between two status’ for a type of card
  • Drag a story card from In Progress to Read for BA Sign off does one thing, while dragging a Defect does another

• Have mingle figure out what all of the possible transitions are, and give the user a choice

Topic: Running Mingle on existing Apache (so we dont have to open ports)

There are couple of options

1. Use VirtualHost as Smerritt said and here is an example apache configuration. ( this is just a general configuration example). Please make sure you have enable mod_proxy and change mingle to run on other port than 80. eg mingle is running on port 82 and mantis is running on port 81. With this example, you can access mingle with http://mingle.example.com and mantis with http://mantis.example.com. Both mingle.example.com and mantis.example.com has the same ip address ( 1.2.3.4 ) on DNS

Listen 1.2.3.4:80
NameVirutalHost 1.2.3.4:80
<virtualhost 1> Servername mingle.example.com ProxyPass / http://localhost:82/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:82/
</virtualhost>

2. If you really want use one hostname to serve both mingle and mantis ( ie http://www.example.com/mingle and http://www.example.com/mantis ). You can try this two approach ( The first approach won’t work all the time, so you have to test it through )

a. Same as one above but with one Virtualhost configuration
Listen 1.2.3.4:80
NameVirutalHost 1.2.3.4:80
<virtualhost 1> Servername www.example.com ProxyPass /mingle http://localhost:82/ ProxyPassReverse /mingle http://localhost:82/ ProxyPass /mantis http://localhost:81/ ProxyPassReverse /mantis http://localhost:81/
</virtualhost>

b) option a) above won’t work for all applications, then you will need to use mod_proxy_html

I will recommend option 1 above ( ie two virutalhosts configuration ).

Topic: Running Mingle on existing Apache (so we dont have to open ports)

Just a suggestion. We had the same issue here and got around it by front-ending the requests through a vanilla Apache server w/ mod_proxy enabled. Then we just set up two virtual hosts, one for mingle and another for mantis, and had each of them proxy all incoming requests directly to their corresponding port. That way only the Apache instance was exposed on port 80.

Topic: Running Mingle on existing Apache (so we dont have to open ports)

I’d like to run Mingle and Mantis on the same server…While I have it running now on port 80 and 81, for firewall reasons I’d like to run both on port 80.
Then access them like…
servername/mingle
servername/mantis

Is this an option?

Cheers,

Mike