Welcome to the July openCollabNet Technical Newsletter. Our enterprise solutions, CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise and CollabNet Enterprise Edition, will see new releases in July and August respectively with some great functionality. And then there is Subversion of course, the community is working hard to get the code to feature complete so they can start “baking” the release for a few weeks before it releases. The good news is that you can already test drive CollabNet Enterprise Edition 5.0 and the merge tracking capabilities of Subversion 1.5; read below for more information. We will post a free 15 user download of CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise within the next few weeks.
Best regards,
Guido Haarmans
Developer Relations, CollabNet
In this Issue:
Test Drive CollabNet Enterprise Edition 5.0
In August we will release CollabNet Enterprise Edition 5.0 and you can test drive it now. If you’re interested in getting a user account on our preview box, please send an email to evalcee5@collab.net. We will setup an account for you and send you a pdf with an overview of what’s new.
CollabNet Enterprise Edition 5.0 is a customer-driven release packed with new and enhanced features:
- The new Discussion Services which will completely replace the current CEE tools for mailing lists and forums.
- Subversion Transaction and Activity Reporting.
- A number of enhancements in the Presentation Framework component, such as WYSIWYG image support, Project Page restructuring and a Project Template admin UI
- Project and domain level wikis.
- Additional Web Services APIs.
- Subversion enhancements: Copy permissions, Repository metadata search and ViewVC syntax coloration.
First conference dedicated to Subversion: SubConf 2007
The fist-ever Subversion conference is taking shape. The SubConf 2007 conference will take place October 16-18 in Munich, Germany. CollabNet is co-organizer and primary sponsor of this conference. Our partners are HLMC Events, Hood GMBH and IX-Magazin. CollabNet will bring several customer case studies to the conference along with technical presentations and Subversion workshops. If you plan to attend, this will be a great time to learn everything you need to know about the pending 1.5 release and you can meet several Subversion committers, some of whom work for CollabNet.
The theme of the event is “Unifying Distributed Teams” and by the language of that you can tell that the conference will be largely in English, but I do expect that a few of the talks will be in German. There are several tracks though: Technical, User and Management. CollabNet’s co-founder (and Apache co-founder) Brian Behlendorf will present the key-note: “ Open Source Development Practices Behind The Firewall.”
For more information, the German language home page is at http://2007.subconf.de/startseite.
Subversion to IBM Rational ClearCase bi-directional Connector
We hear it all the time: developers are required to follow the company standard and use ClearCase but they much prefer to use Subversion. Some are so fed up with the legacy system that they put a Subversion server in place for their teams (is that one under your desk?). We also hear from contractors who work with companies that have standardized on ClearCase but they do not want to use it themselves; they want Subversion.
CollabNet recently released a free bi-directional connector between Subversion and ClearCase. Now you can use Subversion and synchronize with ClearCase. Read more about it in our blog (http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2007/06/subversion-conn.html) and download the connector (http://downloads.open.collab.net/cip.html)
Subversion 1.5 Update
Subversion 1.5 is getting close to feature complete. It might be another 4 to 6 weeks before the community will start baking the release but you can already try it out by downloading pre-release binaries from our Merge Tracking Early Adopter Program (http://merge-tracking.open.collab.net/). In this project you can also find a Subversion repository with merge-tracking history built-in, links to documentation and a discussion forum for feedback and defect reporting.
We’ve blogged quite a bit lately about new features in Subversion 1.5, other people have written about 1.5 as well. Here are some links:
Some posts from Malcolm Rowe, a Subversion committer:
Other Selected Recent Blog Posts
A list of all posts is here: http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/archive-titles.html
Recent CollabNet News
CollabNet delivers Integrations with HP Quality Center including Industry’s first Subversion Plug-in
http://www.collab.net/news/press/2007/hpqc-integrations . html
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