Assembla - First Contact

Website Contact

http://beta.assembla.com/

• I become a little confused, selecting finally this one:

http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/breakoutdocs/Developer+%2F+Supplier+profile

• I feel a little overhelmed by the information, as I've expected just a resistration page.
• without reading much (lazy user) following link register:

Registration

http://www.assembla.com/user/signup

• critical/blocker: Registration is not SSL secured.
• this gives me a negative impression about the security of the service
• Following confirmation-link within e-mail.

http://www.assembla.com/user/start

• "Personal Space" => Personal Profile
• "create a new space" => "Project Space"
• "create a Personal Space" should be a button.

Creating Personal Space

http://www.assembla.com/spaces/personal/new

• Simplify the text for the URL name, give an example URL
• Give examples beneath the text entry boxes
• space created:

http://www.assembla.com/space/bz7s9yWtKr2PLUaaeP0Qfc

• weakness: URL is cryptic

Creating Main Wiki Page

don't know exactly what to do, remembering the article about "developer/Supplier"

http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/breakoutdocs/Developer+%2F+Supplier+profile

• Document is a little overloaded with systems-teminology.
• missing: clearly visible remark on top of the page, which clarifies that this is a preliminariy implementation (thus a user does not wonder about the inconvenience).
• Adding some information, adding tags
• page edited:

http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/bz7s9yWtKr2PLUaaeP0Qfc

• annoying: url

Creating a Project Space

Creating a Space for a Project Audit (which will use TRAC)

Going back to "start"

http://www.assembla.com/user/start

• creating the new space
• entering information
• "invite team members"
  • missing: possibility to search members.

• "wiki settings", the link which explains the different wiki-formats dos not provide information:
  • http://www.assembla.com/spaces/new#

created space:

• http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/cPl34qWtWr2PLUaaeP0Qfc

Administration

Adding trac to this space

http://tools.assembla.com/breakout-audit

• URL better, but still annoying.

would expect something more personalized like

• http://<my-subdomain>.assembla.com/breakout-audit

wondering how to map this to an fully own URL, like:

• http://dev.lazaridis.com/breakout-audit

Starting with Trac

Moving this text over to trac.

wondering that I am not logged-in.

log-in to trac

critical: missing SSL secured trac login