What is Whups?
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Whups is a Horde ticket-tracking application. It is very flexible in design,
and can be used for help-desk requests, tracking sofware development, and
anything else that needs to track a set of requests and their status.
This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software. OSI Certified is a
certification mark of the `Open Source Initiative`_.
.. _`Open Source Initiative`: http://www.opensource.org/
Features
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Currently Whups supports the following features:
* Support for multiple "Queues" (aka Projects).
* Custom ticket types, states, priorities, attributes per Queue.
* Create, update, assign, close tickets.
* Search for tickets matching specific criteria.
* A complex query building for building and saving/storing custom searches.
* Guest access (in addition to login access).
* E-mail notification of changes to tickets.
* Ticket creation and updating through e-mail messages.
* Permissions support.
Terminology
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Queues
Project name (or other major category name). This is the top level
structure.
Types
Project Type, each Type has the following components:
States
State (Stage) of the current item. For example: new, open, closed,
resolved, etc.
Priorities
Priority of the current item. For example: Critical, High, Low, Normal,
Urgent, etc. Could also be abstracted (Red, Yellow, Green; 1, 2, 3; etc)
Attributes
From a large set of attribute types, an arbitrary number of attributes can
be added, including attribute names, descriptions, whether they are
required etc.
Form Replies
Reply texts for updating tickets, used for automatically filling ticket
comments with stock phrases.
Responsible Users
Users responsible for a queue. These can be anyone, but should be Horde
users. Notifications only work with Horde users who have identities with an
email address set.
Versions
Allows you to track multiple versions of the same project. Can be used for
actual versions (CVS HEAD, 1.0, etc), development cycles (planning,
prototyping, production), etc.
Tickets
This is an "Instance" of a Type.
Obtaining Whups
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Further information on Whups and the latest version can be obtained at
http://www.horde.org/whups/
Documentation
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The following documentation is available in the Whups distribution:
:README_: This file
:LICENSE_: Copyright and license information
:`docs/CHANGES`_: Changes by release
:`docs/CREDITS`_: Project developers
:`docs/INSTALL`_: Installation instructions and notes
:`docs/TODO`_: Development TODO list
Installation
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Instructions for installing Whups can be found in the file INSTALL_ in the
``docs/`` directory of the Whups distribution.
Assistance
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If you encounter problems with Whups, help is available!
The Horde Frequently Asked Questions List (FAQ), available on the Web at
http://www.horde.org/faq/
The Horde Project runs a number of mailing lists, for individual applications
and for issues relating to the project as a whole. Information, archives, and
subscription information can be found at
http://www.horde.org/mail/
Lastly, Horde developers, contributors and users also make occasional
appearances on IRC, on the channel #horde on the freenode Network
(irc.freenode.net).
Licensing
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For licensing and copyright information, please see the file LICENSE_ in the
Whups distribution.
Thanks,
The Whups team
.. _README: ?f=README.html
.. _LICENSE: http://www.horde.org/licenses/bsdl.php
.. _docs/CHANGES: ?f=CHANGES.html
.. _docs/CREDITS: ?f=CREDITS.html
.. _INSTALL:
.. _docs/INSTALL: ?f=INSTALL.html
.. _docs/TODO: ?f=TODO.html
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