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Mark replied on November 23, 2009 20:26 to the problem "My Pivotal project page is blank and unresponsive. Eeek!" in Pivotal Labs:

Looks like you are unable to load the Yahoo libraries for some reason. Try emptying the Firefox cache and restarting the browser.

Mark replied on November 23, 2009 16:57 to the question "Points breakdown report has broken down" in Pivotal Labs:

Hi Heidi,

We fixed this bug over the weekend, you shouldn't see data for days in the future anymore.

Mark replied on November 23, 2009 16:56 to the problem "Iteration boundaries may not be respecting project time zones" in Pivotal Labs:

Hi Donald,

The iteration boundary problems should now be fixed. Iterations boundaries are now always calculated in the project's time zone. Let us know if you come across any other iteration boundary issues.

Mark replied on November 23, 2009 16:22 to the problem "My Pivotal project page is blank and unresponsive. Eeek!" in Pivotal Labs:

It looks you closed all of your panels. Click on the Done, Current and Backlog buttons on the top left side of the page and your panels should reappear.

Mark replied on November 23, 2009 16:15 to the problem "Iterations still start on Sunday despite of setting that it should start on Monday" in Pivotal Labs:

Hi Rytis,

The iteration boundary problems should now be fixed. Iterations boundaries are now always calculated in the project's time zone. Let us know if you come across any other iteration boundary issues.

Mark replied on November 18, 2009 23:21 to the question "Does Pivotal use a 3rd party library/gem for the Markdown functionality in Tracker?" in Pivotal Labs:

As you noticed, Tracker at this point does not follow a standard Markdown or Markup syntax. We have an internal markup that just supports bold and italic. We do plan to move to standard Markup or Markdown syntax as some point, but we don't have a timeframe on when yet. All of our markup is currently done in JavaScript. I included the JS code we use below:

Element.cleanupText = function(text) {
if (text == null){
return "";
}
text = ((""+text).htmlEscape());
text = text.replace(/(^|\W)\*([^\n*]+)\*($|\W)/g, "$1$2$3");
text = text.replace(/(^|\W)_([^_]+)_($|\W)/g, "$1$2$3");
text = text.replace(/\n/g, "
");
return text;
};

Mark replied on November 18, 2009 23:11 to the problem "API fails updating stories that have a deadline." in Pivotal Labs:

You should be able to update stories that have a deadline now. Let us know if you have any other questions or problems.

A comment on the problem "Site appears to be down." in Pivotal Labs:

Thanks for providing the last few actions you did. You should be able to load your project now. Somehow the history data for the last story you deleted got out of sink. I fixed the data and we're investigating how it got out of sink.

Let us know if you have any other problems. – Mark, on November 18, 2009 22:46

A comment on the problem "Site appears to be down." in Pivotal Labs:

Hi Matt,
The site doesn't seem to be having any problems. It looks a problem with your specific project. We're investigating the problem. – Mark, on November 18, 2009 22:06

Mark replied on November 18, 2009 18:44 to the question "Points breakdown report has broken down" in Pivotal Labs:

Yea we noticed that as well, we plan to push out the fix later in the week.

Mark replied on November 18, 2009 18:40 to the problem "time zone issues" in Pivotal Labs:

Hi Ethan,

We could not recreate your scenario. Are you sure both computers are set to the correct time? Granted depending upon the user having the correct workstation time set is not ideal and we plan to fix that, but we could only recreate your scenario when one of our computers was set to the incorrect time.

Mark replied on November 18, 2009 15:48 to the problem "time zone issues" in Pivotal Labs:

Hi Ethan,

The story comments are definitely out of order, but we are having trouble recreating the issue. Did you set your time zones to be PST and Tokyo in your Tracker profile's or on your workstations? Did you happen to have the incorrect time set on one of your workstations?

Mark replied on November 18, 2009 15:34 to the idea "Assignments for a specific member" in Pivotal Labs:

Hi Sergey,

You can assign a story to specific developer by expanding the story details and selecting a developer in the drop down box next to the "owns" label.

Once a specific story is assigned to someone, their initials will show up in the story preview section after the story title. A developer can view all stories assigned to them by clicking on their initials, manually typing mywork:<initials> in the search box or by opening the "My Work" panel (View -> My Work).

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Mark replied on November 18, 2009 00:34 to the question "Manual commit mode not working correctly" in Pivotal Labs:

Yes, it looks like there is a problem with commit mode. We'll get fixed as soon as possible.

Mark replied on November 18, 2009 00:30 to the problem "time zone issues" in Pivotal Labs:

We can't seem to recreate your problem. Can you provide us with a specific project and story id so we can look into your issue.

Mark replied on November 16, 2009 20:48 to the problem "Site appears to be down." in Pivotal Labs:

We are of the problem and hope to have it resolved within the next hour.

Mark replied on November 15, 2009 21:57 to the problem "Attempting to save an 'accepted' story using the API causes server side error" in Pivotal Labs:

Just wanted to let you know that this problem should be fixed after today's release. Let us know if you have any other problems.

Mark replied on November 14, 2009 16:57 to the question "Unable to load project from the server!" in Pivotal Labs:

You should be able to load your project now. We had the cleanup the story history as well. I added a bug to make sure we limit the story title when created via the API. In the meantime, please avoid adding stories with super long titles.

Mark replied on November 11, 2009 15:51 to the question "Is it possible to add custom fields to stories?" in Pivotal Labs:

Sorry it's not possible to add custom fields, but most people find that adding additional information to the description and/or adding specific categorization labels (i.e. Safari, Firefox 3.5, IE7, IE8) addresses most if not all of the reasons that they would want custom fields. Labels and description facilitate communication, searching, categorization, etc.

Mark gave praise in Pivotal Labs on November 11, 2009 00:42:

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