WHATWHAT STATUS =============== WhatWhat Status is a web application for tracking the status of projects across an organization. It was developed at Optio Software by Jonathan LaCour and Tim Jones using the TurboGears web application framework. It is inspired by other project management and tracking applications, and is also influenced by wikis. WhatWhat has been in use at Optio for some time now, and has eliminated the need for weekly status reports, and allowed for the entire organization to know the status of a project at any given time. WhatWhat allows for the creation of "projects" which can have several interesting things: description, status, progress notes, issues, risks, questions, answers, and uploaded files. Projects can also have "sub" projects, for different departments, such as Quality Assurance, Development, and Technical Documentation. INSTALLATION ============ WhatWhat requires TurboGears 0.9a6 or higher and the textile module. Follow the instructions on the TurboGears website to install TurboGears, and install textile using 'easy_install textile'. The recommended version of the textile module is textile 2.0.10. TurboGears provides the ability to generate and initialize your database schema through its `tg-admin sql create` tool. I have had a mixed experience with this tool, so I have included initialization schema dumps for Postgres and MySQL. These initialization scripts ("initialize-mysql.sql" and "initialize-pg.sql") are included in the distribution for WhatWhat and will create the schemas, a user, and the appropriate administrators group. If you use these scripts, it will let you get up and running fairly quickly. The user is "admin" and the password is "admin". If you want to install with a different database, you can try using the: tg-admin sql sql command, which will output the sql to create your database. Due to some bugs in TurboGears or SQLObject, this doesn't seem to work reliably. Once you have created the schema, you can use Catwalk to create a user and the "admin" group, and then you should be set. LINKS ===== Optio Software - http://www.optio.com TurboGears - http://www.turbogears.org Jonathan LaCour - http://cleverdevil.org