One of the few things missing from Unfuddle vs. other similar systems (Trac and Lighthouse specifically) is the ability to make projects publicly viewable. We have a number of open source projects that are currently hosted on Trac and we would love to be able to move those over to Unfuddle.

This feature would mostly entail:

• Project setting to make a project public
• Permissions for public access
• Pseudo-users (allow users to sign up on a project with limited permissions to keep track of tickets etc) that don’t affect user limits

Thanks!

There are several of us Open Source folk lobbying Unfuddle, but so far Joshua is sticking to his business plan, which is that Unfuddle is for the development team only. They may consider opening things up at some point, so we’ll continue to bug them about it. :)

The solution right now is the Unfuddle API. There are two of us that I know of building Unfuddle interfaces to use for our open source users – Sir Adrian is developing a core PHP class for the API and a vBulletin specific GUI. I’m using Adrian’s core class, and building a Joomla GUI. Adrian’s vB interface is up and running on his live site. I just tonight got the ticket submission stuff working, and now have a working Joomla implementation, although I have a little more work to do before I take it live.

So if you use vB or Joomla, you are in luck. If not, and you use some other forum or CMS to host your main site, I’m sure Adrian would be happy to share his core class with you. I need to catch up with him and give him the mods I had to make to his core class to abstract some of the vB specific stuff, which would help you build it into whatever software you run.

-- hugh

Thanks for the information. Sounds like a great place for us to implement a Ruby on Rails version of the same thing.

All the stuff Adrian and I are doing is in PHP. But if you need any help with the basic API calls (we’ve found several interesting gotchas), I’d be glad to help. And of course Josh and company are very much on the ball with supporting API development.

Your first step is to ask Josh nicely if he’ll BETA-fy your project, at which point you get a cute link to the API docs at the top of your pages.

I really need to learn RoR some time. Unfuddle itself is built using it, and I’ve been looking for an excuse to get into RoR for a while.

-- hugh

Hi,

Has the core PHP class mentioned in this thread been released anywhere? I would like to help and of course it use it if possible

Todd