[teampractices] Experimenting with Pivotal Tracker

[Luis Villa]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Steven Walling <swalling at wikimedia.org>wrote:

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> On Thursday, November 14, 2013, Luis Villa wrote:
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>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Steven Walling <swalling at wikimedia.org>wrote:
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>>> A logistical point: Pivotal is proprietary. It's a small company based
>>> in SF and owned by VMWare. However, they officially give free unlimited
>>> access perpetually to public projects and non-profits.
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>> s/VMWare/EMC/
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>> FWIW, I've heard from at least one reasonably reliable person that
>> Pivotal has been hemorrhaging people post-acquisition. So you might want to
>> take "perpetually" with a grain of salt.
>>
>> Luis
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> An ex-WMFer I trust a lot works in the same umbrella org, and says this is
> not true. They have a full house and no trouble filling vacancies. People
> who left were not working on Pivotal Tracker for the most part, but were
> part of the consulting side of the Pivotal house.
>

My source was definitely on the consulting side, so consider a heaping pile
of salt added to my comment.

Luis


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