Friday, June 18, 2004

What is Dragnet?

The dictionary says that a dragnet is "a system of coordinated procedures for apprehending criminal suspects or other wanted persons."  Here at SourceGear, Dragnet is "a system of coordinated procedures for apprehending bugs."  

Dragnet is a web-based bug-tracking tool which will be available from SourceGear in approximately the September timeframe.  It is built on ASP.NET and SQL Server and offers lots of cool features, including:

• Integration with Vault and SourceOffSite.  Dragnet offers full, rich integration with both of SourceGear's version control products.
• Item types.  Dragnet can track other kinds of items besides bugs, allowing it to be used as more general project management tool.
• Audit trails.  Dragnet remembers every change which has ever been made to an item, allowing you to see the full history of the issue.
• Customizable fields.  Store the information you want to store for your particular situation.
• Keyword search.  Easily retrieve all items which match one or more search terms.
• Email notifications.  Configure Dragnet to let you know when things happen.
• Web Services API.  Access the contents of your Dragnet database through XML Web Services.
• Milestones.  Divide your items into milestones you define, helping your team to focus on immediate goals.
• Seamless transition from Collab.  Users of SourceOffSite Collab will be able to import all their data into Dragnet.

Those first and last bullets are the mission statement for this product.  The primary purpose of Dragnet is to provide a bug-tracking system which is fully integrated with Vault and SourceOffSite, and which offers a totally seamless transition from Collab.