Motiro is an ancient tupy word for a work gathering. During a motiro, people help each other in order to achieve a common goal like harvesting food or building houses. Motiro is also a project tracking tool.

Motiro is designed to help people with some interest on the evolution of some software system to communicate. It helps to track progress by making it easier to see some important events like source code changes and bugs found. It works pretty well for the interaction between team members and theirs with the users.

There is support for tracking Subversion and Darcs repositories using a web page or an RSS feed. There is also a built-in wiki, based on the MediaWiki language (the same behind the infamous Wikipedia), that can be used to host the system docs, an active user list and pretty much everything that one can think of. The same mark-up language is used to suggest changes, report bugs, make comments and can also be leveraged in commit messages.

A live demo

Throughout the many millennia of the computer programming craft, programmers have developed this notion that eating your own dog food, as we use to say, is a great thing to do. This allows us to be in our users' shoes, feel their pain ourselves and empowers us to improve the program. Every programming tool with a bit of self-respect is used by the creators themselves. How can someone expect that other people will use a program when even the author does not have the courage?

Motiro would not be any different.

In case you don't want to download and install everything yourself, you can find out what Motiro really is and what it does just by exploring this site. This is is a live and breathing Motiro installation that is used to track its own development. The little windows on the right-handed side of the screen are news channels. Maybe you'll want to click on one of the headlines or write something on our test page, just to taste what it feels like to publish something with Motiro.

Contact

Getting in touch is pretty easy. If you have found some bug, miss some feature that cannot be left out or if you just think that there's something that should not have been done the way it was, feel free to add a new feature suggestion. In order to do that, you will need to choose an user name and password. You won't need to give your e-mail, address, phone number and not even your real name (but that doesn't hurt also).

In case you have any information that you wanted to share -- maybe a not very well documented feature, a non-obvious usage or pretty much anything that you find interesting; all pages in this site can be modified and you can also create your own ones, if you choose to. Just make sure that other people will be able to reach your pages by placing a link to them in some other page.

If you'd like to contact us, or even join our motiro, we use to get together at motiro-devel-en@sourceforge.net.

Some starting points

• Downloading and installing
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Information for developers