Welcome to the October openCollabNet Technical Newsletter. I just came back from SubConf in Munich where I witnessed how mature Subversion has become: it has its own dedicated conference. The event was a huge success, with over 300 visitors from 11 countries. The upcoming Subversion 1.5 release was one of the main topics, with a lot of attention on merge tracking and the new GUI clients that CollabNet is developing for merge management and change set merge. To try out Subversion 1.5 and the new clients, go to http://merge-tracking.open.collab.net/.
The next webinar about Subversion 1.5 takes place on October 30th: Advanced Merge Tracking and Branching with Subversion (http://www.collab.net/webinar22/).
Best regards,
Guido Haarmans
Developer Relations, CollabNet
In this Issue:
- svnmerge.py to Subversion 1.5 Merge History Migration Script
- Final Call: Advanced Merge Tracking and Branching with Subversion
- New SVN 1.5 and CollabNet Desktop Binaries
- Free 15 User CollabNet Enterprise Edition 5.0 Download
- SubConf 2007 – Download the Presentations
- Recent Blog Posts
- CollabNet Webcasts and Live Demos
- Recent CollabNet News
The newsletter archive is at http://www.open.collab.net/newsletter/newsletter.html.
svnmerge.py to Subversion 1.5 Merge History Migration Script
At CollabNet we receive a lot of questions about the differences between Subversion 1.5 merge tracking and the widely-used svnmerge.py. One of the presentations at SubConf by CollabNet committers covered this topic. I wrote about this in our Submerged blog but I want to bring it up here as well because a migration script from svnmerge.py to Subversion 1.5 is now available from the Subversion developers.
We posted a copy of the migration script in the Merge Tracking Early Adopter Program. If you used svnmerge.py in the past and you have downloaded Subversion 1.5 for testing, give the script a try and discuss it with our Subversion committers in the discussion forum.
Final Call: Advanced Merge Tracking and Branching with Subversion
A month ago CollabNet held a very successful webinar titled “Branching and Merging Strategies for Subversion 1.5.” This month we will follow up with “Advanced Merge Tracking and Branching with Subversion.” During this webinar Bob Jenkins will explain the benefits that merge tracking brings to the three branching strategies discussed in the previous webinar. This will include looking at the impact of merge tracking on each strategy as well as the added functionality that CollabNet GUI clients provide for managing those merges and associating code changes with issue management, all from within your IDE. Bob will also answer a lot of the questions that attendees asked during the previous webinar.
The replay is at http://www.collab.net/webinar22.
A replay of “Branching and Merging Strategies for Subversion 1.5” is at http://www.collab.net/webinar21.
New SVN 1.5 and CollabNet Desktop Binaries
This week we will post new Subversion 1.5 pre-release binaries in the Merge Tracking Early Adopter Program. We’ll also update the previews of the new plugins of the CollabNet Desktop - Eclipse Edition (Merge Client and Change Set Merge). See the September newsletter for more information on the new GUI clients for Subversion 1.5.
Free 15-User CollabNet Enterprise Edition 5.0 Download
The free 15 user CollabNet Enterprise Edition 5.0 download is now available on openCollabNet at http://downloads.open.collab.net/cee15.html. New knowledge sharing and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) features in CollabNet Enterprise Edition 5.0 include:
- ALM templates: CollabNet Enterprise Edition 5.0 includes an enhanced version of the CollabNet Baseline Process template, which allows project teams to rapidly start with ALM. Project managers can use the configurable template as a blueprint for artifact lifecycle management and customize it to fit their development process.
- Subversion reporting: Subversion reporting capabilities bring visibility into development activities on a specific project or a group of projects. Members and managers can track and report on transactions such as the number of code check-outs, as well as commits and imports done over a period of time at the project level or at the platform level. The new reporting feature highlights the most active projects, developers who contribute the most to any given project, and the most frequently downloaded code components.
- Project-level and domain-level Wiki: The new Wiki feature enables members to collaborate on project content very easily while respecting roles and permission assigned to users. Combining Wikis with security at the project level is critical to projects utilizing external resources such as contractors, customers, or offshore teams.
- Online discussion services: Discussion forums and mailing lists are now one integrated feature that enables teams to leverage online communication tools in whatever way is most convenient to them.
- Web services APIs: API extensions improve the integration of CollabNet with other solutions used during the application lifecycle. The new APIs support operations for project management, such as project creation, roles and permissions and the mechanisms of user membership administration and role associations.
- Onsite Installer: Improved proxy authorization better informs administrators about system failures. Mysql restart is no longer an issue, and the installer now disables SE Linux automatically. CollabNet Enterprise Edition now starts automatically after the system reboots.
The download is available as a small installation script that pulls the software components from openCollabNet. A VMware image download is coming soon.
SubConf 2007 – Download the Presentations
The first-ever conference dedicated to Subversion took take place October 17-18 in Munich, Germany. The event was a huge success, with over 300 participants, different presentation tracks and lots of time to meet other Subversion users to exchange experiences.
PDF versions of CollabNet presentations are at http://subconf.open.collab.net/. At this URL you will also find photos of the event.
This is what Brian Behlendorf (Apache co-founder and one of the Subversion initiators) said about the event: "SubConf was a great beginning to what hopefully will be many Subversion-related conferences and events. It showed the significant scope and depth of the end-user interest in Subversion. I was particularly happy to see lots of people attending the sessions on branching policies and the culture of the Subversion development community itself. It was also great to see all the vendors exhibiting at the show, demonstrating their commitment to the project and the user community. When's the next SubConf?"
Well… in 2008.
Recent Blog Posts
TortoiseSVN and Subversion 1.5
Subversion 1.5 WebDAV Write-Thru Proxies
Subversion 1.5 Merge Tracking and svnmerge.py
Considerations when upgrading to Subversion 1.5
Subversion 1.5 availability
Change Set Based Merges in Subversion
A list of all our posts is at http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/archive-titles.html.
CollabNet Webcasts and Live Demos
Advanced Merge Tracking and Branching with Subversion - Replay available
CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise with Subversion - Replay available
Subversion and Eclipse: Reaching a New Level of Productivity using the CollabNet Desktop-Eclipse Edition
A list of all our live demos and replays is at http://www.collab.net/news/livedemo/
Recent CollabNet News
Heavy Hitters bring new meaning to Collaborative Software Development
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