Opiniones de Assembla

Easy to use.

It's very easy to create repositories and start to work with your colleagues.

I had no difficulties. I met assembla in 2012 and have recommended it to others. Collaborative work has made it much easier for me. I only have one problem but it isn't specifically related to Assembla, but with Tortoise Subversion. On files that weight around or more than 25 mb or for a large set of assets, it's very common to fail (more than 90% of times). I have to upload separetely all the files and directories. I know it isn't assembla issue, but maybe you can tweek something or have a conversation with Tortoise SVN support to find the reason. This always happens, since I started to use the tool. Related to this issue, is that if you fail with tortoise, they dont have an automatic try upload or to save the assets it could done from all the bunch, because you have to try again and again and again, unselecting some of them until you have a success upload. This take time and its frustrating. Maybe you can recommend to fix this or to let us know about how to solve or how to use another tool whitout having inconveniences when exporting or migrating. Thanks.

Well it does the job, somehow. The integration of all tools under one roof is a good idea.

Merge requests are useless, since you don't have proper code highlighting. Also, cross-referencing tickets from code is not working well. The ticket management is very poor. The cardwall is difficult to filter and navigate through. User management is sometimes buggy (you invite user and it sends invitation to wrong address, etc.). External tool integration is limited and does not work very well. Exporting data from Assembla is mostly impossible, so you are locked in until you are really fed up with it :).

- Ease of creating tickets, by pasting in/ uploading documents quickly.
- Custom fields which can be searched on, filtered by - this is fantastic in itself as this is a difficult to implement properly, and it works perfectly.
- Comment tracking to other team members, and ability to mark read, or even restore them.
- Custom views (saved queries) saved for yourself - fantastic
- Cardwall gives great overview
- Export to CSV if required
- Ability to open tickets either into new browser tab (full URL) or open up as modal dialog - both methods are required depending on scenario.

Probably the price - for our team of 8 our monthly cost is around $US280 - so it's a chunk of money.

Ticket management tied it to repositories, easier to use than GitHub system

Navigation menu that tended to throw links to all the Git repositories on the same level as main menu item. A dropdown with a mega menu for the repositories would have been greatly appreciated. The team did try -there's a mega menu for spill over items and ability to move things around, but it's not enough and implies more work where none should be required.

You get all the necessary core features (task tracking, source control) in a very reliable service (downtime negligible in >5 years) for a good price.

Main issue is that their support is lacking. In particular, there is no good way to report an issue other than email, which then isn't being tracked and you'll never even know if they are working on it.

One issue that's been annoying us every day: their web pages constantly show an error on bottom right saying "We got disconnected. We'll try to reconnect, or you may reload page". They have yet to fix this after many years despite us complaining about it. Would be much happier if they just suppressed/disabled this message since it's completely useless.

Performance is great. ---------------------------

Web Navigation could have some tips and tricks.

It works well to keep track to issues as well as our code

It is clunky. Slow to load in paces, would like to be able to keep one ticket open if I need to work on a second ticket at the same time, the filters do not always work. It is not intuitive, have to go hunting for features

Task management is our favorite feature. Some users utilize Cardwall and other project tracking tools. But primarily task assignment and tracking.

We always need better ways to document processes. The Wiki provided does not sufficiently serve that purpose. Perhaps it is the limited formatting for complex heirarchical work. Not sure. Other team members use Confluence and claim it to work better for documentation.

Simple to use and a great collaborative tool for our global employees.

Nothing

Assembla is the best project management system I've ever used (and I've used quite a few). Everything integrates so nicely: svn, tickets, wiki, etc. Easy to use and provides everything I need, without getting in my way or wasting my time.

They got greedy a couple years ago and raised their rates to exorbitant levels. I have been forced to look elsewhere for my PM needs.

Good SVN Support for Source Code
Clean Interface
WIKI
File Storage
Up Time

Not faced any recently, so NONE!

VERY easy to use and learn. Child/Parents tickets are great.

I wish there was a desktop notification when there is an update to a ticket I follow. this would help more than email notifications for me.

This software is esay to use
compatible with any SVN client
Get your code/project in any place on any device, just checkout and work or review

At moment this software has all i need to develop my code and mantain it revisions

Assembla is the most versatile project/task management tool I've used. While there is a bit of a learning curve (as with any tool), the layout is fairly intuitive.

It's a minor issue, but formatting text in the Wiki and tickets can be a challenge.

Organization of ticket view, ability to share information with colleagues, and ease of use.

I wish it had a multiple image upload rather than having to drag the image into the comment box.

Simplicity is good with few handy options.

Should consider Gantt chart & release management features from Jira & other portals.
we are gaming company so we wish your interface to be uplifted & soon we will share you something interested based on your own Assembla.

Solid fundamentals, easy to onboard new users, it has all necessary features.

"All coupons have been discontinued" as an excuse for cancelling a 5 years old agreement and hiking price by 300%.

Task management in the application is simple and effective.

The UI is bizarre and very old-fashioned. The software feels like it was designed in 2011. There is no tight integration with Github, which is a clear deficiency of Assembla. It is also VERY chatty and seems to send email about everything.

I am a using Assembla for more than 6 years. Everything is awesome except cost and support. ;)

Support. Cost is huge but we get a discount. :)

I only use this to host my SVN repositories, because there's nothing like Github out there for SVN. It gets the job done well, so no complaints from me. 👍

Besides my unresolved support ticket related to a specific device that I use, the most annoying thing is the reliance on an environment variable (REPO_NAME) to distinguish between multiple repositories when connecting by command line to svn.assembla.com, instead of relying on URL like any sane API.

I have four repositories that I want to access from the same device, so setting this variable globally on my device configuration isn't an option. It seems like Assembla engineers assumed users could just set this globally on their device, which was a false assumption.

My favorite part of Assembla is people in my company are moving away from using it lately.

It's clearly written by programmers for programmers and I am not a programmer. Menus are unintuitive, it's impossible to find anything I'm looking for. The interface is ugly and complicated while simultaneously delivering too much information and nothing I need to see. And I get either hourly, daily, or no emails? What about weekly? You have due date AND deadline? Why are these different?

I only use Assembla when I have to and it's always painful.

I have used many defect management tools in the past but this one is undoubtedly the best defect management tool. It is easy to use and simple. The defects can be tracked easily.

There should be some options to manage the requirements as well. It would be very helpful.

It features organization in both a technical way with lots of details, as well as visually with customizable sorting options.

If a label is mistakenly made, there isn't a way to specifically undo it.

Aseembla has all the required features to support common software development lifecycles. I don't find anything "special" about it, it is just normal.

User interface - it looks somehow "old", and most of the times it is not very intuitive.Task view is overwhelmed with information, and most of the times the only thing I would like to see is the task description, and optionally check for comments, updates, and so on.Also I would like to see Markdown support in comments and task description components.