We’re evaluating Mingle, an agile project management solution from ThoughtWorks. ThoughtWorks offers versions of Mingle for both Windows and Linux. It’s integrated with either Oracle or Postgres databases. We recommend using Linux and Postgres. ThoughtWorks also provides canned installations of Mingle and Postgres on VMWare virtual machines for download. Our style is to get the full experience, so starting from a pre-installed VM isn’t for us.
After struggling to get Mingle working with Postgres and Oracle on Widnows 7 we were told by Mingle’s support team that only Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are supported by Mingle at this time.
Since we’ve been diving into Linux more aggressively the past several months we decided to bring up an Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.0.4) virtual machine using VirtualBox and start there. Installation of Mingle is pretty straight forward. Begin with Postgres, create a mingle user with DBA privileges, create an empty database for Mingle, unpack the Mingle tar ball and follow the installation instructions.
Update 29 June 2010
We have Mingle 3.1.1 running on Windows 7 x64 Ultimate with Postgres SQL 8.4. Following the defaults works fine. Install Postgres first, create an account called mingle with the create databases role. Create a database called mingle. You can call the user and the database anything you like. Finally install Mingle.
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