{"id":1376,"date":"2010-05-18T10:10:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Polarion-Blog\/Polarion-POP-Challenge-2010-and-the-winner-is\/ba-p\/380643"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:37:41","slug":"polarion-pop-challenge-2010-and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/polarion-pop-challenge-2010-and-the-winner-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Polarion POP Challenge 2010 \u2013 and the winner is\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><IMG class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-772\" style=\"margin-bottom: 11em; margin-right: 2em;\" title=\"Polarion POP Challenge 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2010\/05\/image001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"169\" \/>The Polarion POP Challenge 2010 is over, and the winner has been selected from among the&nbsp;10 extensions submitted:<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n\t<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/extension.jsp?extension=PE-72\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Traceability Report<\/A> by Giuseppe Pitzalis (Selex Communications)<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/extension.jsp?extension=PE-153\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Bulk Perform Workflow Action<\/A> by : Giuseppe Pitzalis (Selex Communications)<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/extension.jsp?extension=PE-155\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">FreeMind Integration<\/A> by Mika Karaila (Metso Automation Inc.)<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/extension.jsp?extension=PE-164\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">RoleBasedSVNAccess<\/A> by Manuel Sprock (Phoenix Contact)<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/extension.jsp?extension=PE-187\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">MySQL Support Tutorial Source<\/A> by Matti Kiviharju (i4ware Software)<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/extension.jsp?extension=PE-188\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Polarion Due Notification Service (PDNS)<\/A> by Christian Raschka (SOPTIM AG)<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/extension.jsp?extension=PE-189\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Default Approvals and Reset Approvals Status<\/A> by Daniel Putz (Sony DADC Austria AG)<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/extension.jsp?extension=PE-193\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Test linked Workitems<\/A> by Roman Kellner (Bombardier)<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/extension.jsp?extension=PE-194\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">T-Polls<\/A> by Sebastian Bejga (T-Systems \/ DHBW Stuttgart)<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/extension.jsp?extension=PE-196\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Scalable, nested, graphical Gantt project plan<\/A> by Marc Dzaebel (H&amp;D)<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\nWe would like to thank all the entrants for their great work.  We appreciate not only the extensions themselves, which are so valuable for the benefit and help they provide to Polarion users, but we also honor also your participation in&nbsp;building the Polarion community. The growth of the Polarion POP portal definitively proves the power and viability of our Polarion platform.<br \/>\n<H2>Winners<\/H2><br \/>\nPicking a winner proved extremely difficult. Voting by the panel of judges resulted in a decision to add a third place winner and prize. So without further ado&#8230;&nbsp;<STRONG>the winners of Polarion POP Challenge 2010 are:<\/STRONG><br \/>\n<H3><A href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/extension.jsp?extension=PE-196\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-787\" title=\"1st place\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2010\/05\/1st_place1.png\" alt=\"1st place\" width=\"137\" height=\"145\" \/><SPAN style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Scalable, nested, graphical Gantt projectplan<\/SPAN><\/A><STRONG> by Marc Dzaebel (H&amp;D) <\/STRONG><\/H3><br \/>\n<EM>A WiKi page showing the Polarion Live Plan as a common Gantt diagram. Tasks are sorted by parent relations and start date. They are hierarchically nested and the depth can be dynamically changed. The planned duration from the Live Plan is used to show scaled graphical bars so that one page fills the complete project plan. Summary tasks are rendered black\/italic. Date ranges and time points can be set via the UI and you can change the scale dynamically.<\/EM><\/p>\n<p><EM><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-776\" title=\"Screenshot  Gantt diagram\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2010\/05\/image003.png\" alt=\"Screenshot  Gantt diagram\" width=\"440\" height=\"280\" \/> <\/EM><\/p>\n<p>Keywords from the jury comments:<EM> sweet job, very useful, wow, generates nice ideas, nice piece of code, door opener\u2026<\/EM><br \/>\n<H3><STRONG><IMG class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-788\" title=\"2nd place\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2010\/05\/2nd_place.png\" alt=\"2nd place\" width=\"137\" height=\"145\" \/>Second place : <\/STRONG><SPAN style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><A href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/extension.jsp?extension=PE-194\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">T-Polls<\/A><\/SPAN><STRONG> by Sebastian Bejga (T-Systems \/ DHBW Stuttgart)<\/STRONG><\/H3><br \/>\n<EM>Project configuration defining the work item type \u201cpoll\u201d and web application embedded on Polarion Wiki where users can vote on these polls.<\/EM><\/p>\n<p><EM><\/EM> <EM><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-777\" title=\"T-Polls\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2010\/05\/image007.png\" alt=\"Screenshot T-Polls\" width=\"610\" height=\"260\" \/> <\/EM> <STRONG><\/STRONG><br \/>\n<H3><STRONG><IMG class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-789\" title=\"3rd place\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2010\/05\/3rd_place.png\" alt=\"3rd place\" width=\"137\" height=\"145\" \/>Third place : <\/STRONG><SPAN style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><A href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/polarion\/extensions\/extension.jsp?extension=PE-164\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Role Based SVN Access<\/A><\/SPAN><STRONG> by Manuel Sprock (Phoenix Contact) <\/STRONG><\/H3><br \/>\n<EM>Manage SVN repository access according to Polarion roles. You don&#8217;t want to grant any user access to the entire SVN repository? And you don&#8217;t want to modify the access file manually? Role Based SVN Access is what you need! <\/EM> <EM> <\/EM><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all of you!<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we would like to encourage everyone to share their extensions with all Polarion users as an active member in the Polarion ecosystem. We hope you can benefit not only from the support we provide to write the extensions but also from the feedback that comes from all Polarion Community users.<\/p>\n<p>See you soon on <A title=\"Polarion POP Portal\" href=\"http:\/\/extensions.polarion.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Polarion POP Portal!<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polarion POP Challenge 2010 is over, and the winner has been selected from among the&nbsp;10 extensions submitted:<\/p>\n<p>\t Traceability Report by Giuseppe Pitzalis (Selex Communications)<br \/>\n\t Bulk Perf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68986,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68986"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}