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TheHat

TheHat is a Ruby based workflow task coordination system. You can use it to coordinate things like release cycles, deployment procedures, and pretty much anything where you have to make a bunch of things happen in a particular order.

TheHat aims at a very precise niche in the "workflow" world - precise enough that it "workflow" applies only in the most generic sense of the word: Its goal is primarily to drive a predefined directed graph of tasks through to completion by tracking and prompting work by teams of people and/or automated systems in near real time.

You can use TheHat to drive teams and processes through things like:

• Complex Methods of Procedure (MOPs) including
• Software upgrades
• Network reconfigurations
• Configuration changes
• etc
• Long running "procedures" like
• Software development cycles
• Billing cycles
• Technical sales procedures

Procedures codified as TheHat workflows become active entities - running programs. In a sense your procedures manage themselves. It can alleviate quite a lot of procedural drudgery and potential for mishaps that drudgery can lead to.

Documentation is in the wiki:

• Introduction
• Sample Session
• Graph Legend
• Quickstart
• Configuration
• Workflows
• Commands
• Engine API
• History

If you need help:

• Change requests etc
• freenode channel: #thehat