Buildix

We’re pleased to announce that Buildix is now available as an AMI on the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) from Amazon! The image id is ami-e4ca2f8d.

There were a few annoying problems with the original VMWare image we released for Buildix 2.0. There is now a new image available which fixes these problems, and also adds the VMWare Tools. For more info, see the Download page.

Mingle 1.1 was released last week, and the updated package is now available for Buildix. Highlights are:

• Differentiate views for different types of cards (e.g. bugs, tasks, stories, risks)
• More powerful filtering capabilities (and/or, negative filters, add/remove conditions)
• Dates (see what’s due Today)
• Remote SVN support
• Build robust workflows with new transition capabilities

More info at http://studios.thoughtworks.com/2007/10/30/mingle-11-is-now-available

It’s been a long time since we initially released Buildix into the wild, and we’ve finally gotten around to releasing a new version! One of the highlights of Buildix 2.0 is the fact that it’s all package based. This will make releasing updates a lot easier, and should mean that you don’t have to wait another 18 months before the next version. You can also install the Buildix packages on your own Ubuntu based system - no need to reinstall!

Other notable improvements include Mingle integration (including up to 5 users free, forever), ground up rewrite of the web interface, Trac version 10, Subversion 1.4, early access to CruiseControl 2.7.2 (including integration with the new Dashboard).

We’ve removed the need to log into the Linux system to administer Buildix - it’s all managed via the web interface.