Welcome to the January openCollabNet Technical Newsletter. openCollabNet made great progress last month; we are close to 2,000 members and have welcomed over 30,000 unique visitors. Our downloads remain one of the most popular items on openCollabNet. Between CollabNet Subversion and CollabNet Enterprise Edition we had over 6,000 downloads.
Over the last month we also saw an increase in the number of forum discussions taking place between members and CollabNet employees. We encourage you to participate: openCollabNet is your forum to communicate with us, let us assist you with the CollabNet platform or Subversion and tell us what you need from us in the future. Check out the forums at: http://www.open.collab.net/forums.html.
Best regards,
Guido Haarmans
Developer Relations, CollabNet
In this Issue:
- Subversion adoption
- Locked Subversion working copy
- Project groups in CollabNet Enterprise Edition
- CollabNet Subversion for Linux
- Live Webinars and Replays
- Oracle developer contest, last call
- Recent CollabNet News
Subversion Adoption
Subversion is no doubt the fastest growing open source application for version control. ESoft publishes monthly statistics about Apache servers running mod_dav_svn (Subversion). The report is numbers-only so we’ve put a graphic overview on openCollabNet. Check it out and see how fast Subversion is growing around the world: http://subversion.open.collab.net/subversion-adoption.html.
Locked Subversion Working Copy
Question: Why does my working copy get locked sometimes?
Answer: Subversion's working copy is a journaling system, it logs everything it does. If the Subversion client program is interrupted or killed, then one or more lock files are left behind, along with log files describing unfinished tasks. Any process that attempts to access the working copy will fail when it sees the locks. To remove the locks, use this command: $ svn cleanup working-copy.
Project groups in CollabNet Enterprise Edition
Picture this: 14 of the projects running on your CollabNet site are building software to deal with different pieces of the same problem. Coordinating them can be a challenge -- too many meetings, emails, phone calls. How to simplify things? Put them in a Project group.
A project group is a set of projects grouped together for administrative purposes. A CollabNet domain administrator can group projects by technologies, by departments, by clients, or by any other criteria the organization may require. Any given project on a site may belong to more than one project group. Project groups enable you to perform administrative actions to affect multiple projects and users simultaneously. User membership in project groups can happen two different ways:
- When the projects a user belongs to are added to the project group.
- When users are associated with user groups that are added to the project group (more on that in the next newsletter).
Project groups can be managed as projects themselves; like individual projects, every project group has its own home page, version control repository, tracking component and web pages for announcements, documents and files.
To learn more, read the new article “Project Groups in CollabNet Enterprise Edition”: http://collabnet-products.open.collab.net/articles/projectgroups.html
CollabNet Subversion for Linux
Many openCollabNet members have asked about availability of CollabNet Subversion for Red Hat Linux. We are doing final testing and expect to post it on openCollabNet within the next few days. Windows is already available and a Solaris version is under development. If you are interested in other platforms, send us an email: facilitator@open.collab.net.
CollabNet Subversion is open source Subversion compiled, tested and certified by CollabNet. Next to compiling and testing, CollabNet has developed a recommended configuration that will result in lower cost of ownership by ensuring scalability, easier maintenance and improved supportability. CollabNet Subversion installs this configuration “out of the box”. CollabNet has also engaged with Palamida on a full intellectual property audit of the open source Subversion code, which gives you one more level of assurance that CollabNet Subversion is ready for the enterprise. For an overview of openCollabNet’s free downloads, which includes the free 15 user version of CollabNet Enterprise Edition, our platform for globally distributed development teams, go to http://downloads.open.collab.net.
Live Webinars and Replays
Jan 30 & Feb 27, 2007: Subversion
A detailed, hands-on demonstration of Subversion.
http://www.collab.net/webinar9/
Feb 6 & Mar 6, 2007: CollabNet Enterprise Edition
A low-pressure introduction to CollabNet Enterprise Edition, including major features, key functionality and a brief outline of adopting Open Source development best practices for the enterprise.|
http://www.collab.net/webinar5/
Feb 20, 2007: Application Lifecycle Management
Understanding ALM and how software development processes are deeply integrated with the tools you use daily.
http://www.collab.net/webinar8/
Replay: Subversion Best Practices
http://www.collab.net/webinar6/
Replay: Subversion Support in the NetBeans IDE
http://www.collab.net/webinar14/
Replay: Mastering Subversion with Oracle JDeveloper
http://www.collab.net/webinar13/
Staying ahead in a flat world: video recording of a panel discussion with Thomas Friedman (The World is Flat), Brian Behlendorf (Apache co-founder and CollabNet co-founder), Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media and CollabNet co-founder) and Devin Wing (CTO Reuters).
http://www.pqhp.com/cmp/col06/
Recent CollabNet News
CollabNet's CUBiT named CODiE Award Finalist
http://www.collab.net/news/press/2007/codie2007.html
CUBiT is the industry’s first end-to-end multi-site development environment integrating build and test into the development life cycle.
New CollabNet reseller in Japan
http://www.collab.net/news/press/2006/t4upartners.html
Feedback and Suggestions
Do you have feedback and suggestions about openCollabNet or this technical newsletter? Please send an email to facilitator@open.collab.net.
