Subversion had a great start in 2008, it was named “Developer.com Product of the Year” in the Open Source Tool category. Thanks to all of you who voted for Subversion. On the developer.com web site you can read some of the comments people made about Subversion. Here’s a good one: “The ability to support distributed teams without any administration headaches, and enterprise-class scalability, have made Subversion the preferred solution for many distributed projects”.
Lots of news on openCollabNet too, most importantly new downloads for Subversion and a new Quality Center 9.2 to Subversion connector. Plus, openCollabNet has a new companion site: openSource. Read on!
Best regards,
Guido Haarmans
Developer Relations, CollabNet, Inc.
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The newsletter archive is at http://www.open.collab.net/newsletter/newsletter.html.
CollabNet Subversion 1.4.6
Quite a few bugfixes were made in the process of developing Subversion 1.5. Late December, the Subversion team decided to backport many of the fixes to Subversion 1.4 and they released Subversion 1.4.6. CollabNet has updated the CollabNet Subversion packaging to include this release. CollabNet Subversion 1.4.6 downloads for Linux, Solaris and Windows are available at http://downloads.open.collab.net/collabnet-subversion.html . You can read a list of all fixes in Subversion’s own repository: http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.4.6/CHANGES .
If you have followed the packages CollabNet issued for the Subversion 1.5 Merge Tracking beta program, you might be aware that we have revamped our CollabNet Subversion packaging for Linux: the build now uses shared libraries. There is now also an ”Extras" RPM that includes ViewVC. The CollabNet Subversion installation script configures ViewVC for you, just answer “Yes” when asked if you want to install ViewVC. To support ViewVC, the Extras RPM also includes the Subversion bindings for Python and the client RPM includes the JavaHL bindings (we will take advantage of this when we release our GUI Merge Client for Subversion 1.5). Future releases for Solaris and Windows will include the same improvements.
Subversion Binaries for AIX
The SVNbinaries project on openCollabNet is a community project with the goal to produce Subversion binaries that are hard to get elsewhere. The first binaries created in this project were universal binaries for Mac OS X. A few weeks back AIX binaries were added. These new AIX binaries are a complete Subversion 1.4.6 installation. The server includes support for BDB and FSFS, and all repository access layers. The binaries even ship with Apache 2.2.x modules and the Python language bindings. The AIX binaries do not yet include the Java, Perl or Ruby bindings and we are looking for openCollabNet members who want to join the project and make the AIX package complete.
Join the project at http://svnbinaries.open.collab.net or download the binaries from http://downloads.open.collab.net/binaries.html .
New SVN to Quality Center 9.2 Connector
The CollabNet Subversion Connector to HP Quality Center lets you use CollabNet Subversion for version control of Quality Center 9.2 test plans (such as design steps, test cases and test scripts). A connector for Quality Center 9.0 has been available as a free download from openCollabNet since the middle of last year and many people have asked us about Quality Center 9.2 support. An updated connector was posted in January. Download the connector (and other tools) from http://downloads.open.collab.net/cip.html .
Technical support for CollabNet Integrations is included in most CollabNet Support contracts.
CollabNet CUBiT 1.5 released: Spend less time configuring build and test hardware
How much time do you waste setting up your dev/test environments? How much easier would build and test be if you could share hardware and provision and configure your testing machines when you need them, right from your desktop?
CollabNet CUBiT improves your productivity by reducing the time you spend waiting for an available server (or configuring machines you keep under your desk). Using the self-service CUBiT portal, you reserve development, build or test servers with a single click. CUBiT rebuilds them for you, from scratch, using a configuration you selected from a library. When you are done with testing, you release the resources back to the pool. CUBiT can configure both physical and virtual machines.
Visit http://www.collab.net/products/CUBiT for more information.
CollabNet CUBiT 1.5 was released this January and will be formally launched in February at Future Test 2008. What's new in CollabNet CUBiT 1.5:
- OnSite deployment option: now you can choose to install CUBiT in your data center.
- Support for CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise and CollabNet Enterprise Edition.
- Integration with the Eclipse IDE: provision resources directly from within Eclipse.
Improve CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise Performance
Apache 2.x ships with the mod_deflate module that compresses content before sending it over the wire. This results i n less bandwidth consumption and better performance for the user. To enable this feature, add the following to either httpd.conf or ssl.conf (depending on whether you're running HTTPS or not):
# Turn on mod_deflate
DeflateFilterNote Input instream
DeflateFilterNote Output outstream
DeflateFilterNote Ratio ratio
LogFormat '"%r" %[outstream]n/%[instream]n [%[ratio]n%%]' deflate
CustomLog logs/deflate_log deflate
<Location />
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</Location>
After you restart Apache, your CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise site’s content (excluding images) will be compressed for browsers that support it.
openSource – A New Open Source Community
CollabNet’s openSource community at http://www.opensource.collab.net is a new community site where companies can host projects alongside other open source initiatives. The advantage over comparable multi-tenant open source sites is that openSource offers project branding and higher levels of customer support. Companies pay CollabNet a nominal fee to host their projects.
openSource provides project spaces equipped with Subversion, issue tracking, discussion services, wikis and reporting - all managed by a configurable, role-based permissions system. openSource encourages the creation of content through easy-to-use tools. Project leaders edit their project pages using the WYSIWIG Project Content Editor and each project’s wiki encourages collaborative content creation. Project spaces include CSS templates enabling customization that promotes a unique identity. Web traffic can be tracked using the supported Google analytics portal, and activity metrics are available for Subversion repositories and downloads.
openLogic’s OSS Discovery open source census tools now on openSource
OpenLogic has announced the OSS Discovery project on CollabNet’s OpenSource community. OSS Discovery is a tool that helps enterprises find installed open source software across the company, on servers and desktops. The inventory enables enterprises to develop support and maintenance plans, comply with open source licenses and drive the adoption of open source software.
The latest version of OSS Discovery offers a new pluggable architecture that enables community members to contribute their own fingerprint rules that identify open source software packages.
Join the OSS discovery project at http://ossdiscovery.opensource.collab.net .
Discussion of the Month
From our forums http://www.open.collab.net/forums.html):
[“I am wondering if there is a document that describes a "How To" for using Subclipse, CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise and Mylyn. I have downloaded the CollabNet Desktop and configured it within Eclipse. I have also connected with CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise but I don’t know how my source code in svn and my tasks in CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise will work together.”]
Read the answer at http://tinyurl.com/2m63cu .
Download the CollabNet Desktop for Eclipse: http://downloads.open.collab.net/cip.html (from within Eclipse, version code, manage issues, associate revision sets with issues, and much more).
60-day Free Trial: CollabNet OnDemand
CollabNet OnDemand gives distributed development teams instant Web-based access to a fully-integrated software collaboration and project management platform. Subversion is embedded as part of CollabNet OnDemand so it is great place to try Subversion for your distributed team. To learn more or to sign up for a 60-day free trial, visit http://myproject.collab.net .
Recent Blog Posts
Subversion at the 2008 World Economic Forum
http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2008/01/subversion-at-t.html
Subversion - Product of the Year
http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2008/01/subversion---pr.html
Subversion 1.4.6 AIX Binaries Available
http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2008/01/subversion-14-1.html
Subversion 1.4.6 -- New Packaging for Linux
http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2008/01/subversion-146.html
CollabNet Webcasts and Live Demos
CollabNet Live! CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise – February 12th
http://tinyurl.com/36myrg
CollabNet Live! Using Subversion, What’s new in Subclipse! – April 1st (with Mark Phippard, the Subclipse project lead)
http://tinyurl.com/2q3v94
Replay: What's New in Subversion 1.5?
http://www.collab.net/webinar26/
CUBiT Podcast with Nick Bonfiglio
http://www.outlookseries.com/vendor_perspective/COLLABNET.htm
A list of all our live demos and replays is at http://www.collab.net/news/livedemo/
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