openCollabNet Technical Newsletter - Volume 30, August 2009

In this issue: New software releases; new articles, upcoming events and webinars, and more.

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In This Newsletter

• Community Corner
• Software Releases
• Upcoming Events
• New Press Releases, Articles, and News
• CollabNet Training & Courses
• Recent Blogs from Submerged and ONCollabNet
• Projects to Join
• Webinars and Live Demos

Community Corner

Hello,

This weekend I attended the Community Leadership Summit in San Jose. A frequent topic concerned rating tools, and member reputation management. We don't do either of these at CollabNet, but we have wondered if these would be useful.

Ratings allows you to tag a message in a discussion forum as being useful, or not. In addition, you might want to rate projects, downloads, or site content. The down side of this is that it can make community members feel degraded or insulted from negative ratings, and it can inflate egos of those with high ratings. Yet, sometimes communities find these systems useful. How do you feel about rating content?

As for member reputation, this was an interesting topic and not one easily implemented. Sometimes rating systems were tied into member reputations, especially where discussion forums were concerned. But often reputation emerged out of the community itself as frequent contributors gained reputations with their peers, or people who often offered advice to those who need it. Sometimes the hosting company hosting awarded those with high reputations, or assigned roles as community leaders. Thoughts about whether or not CollabNet should encourage community leaders? Feel free to email me directly. Thank you!

Also, I want to announce two new discussion forums!

• Community Corner: Where you can have two-way discussions about the forums or the web site with CollabNet community managers, and to read announcements and notices we post.
• Distributed Software Development: Where you can discuss issues about software development, tools, problems, and solutions, etc. with fellow developers.

Lastly, System Alert: On August 7, 2009 CollabNet plans to conduct quarterly maintenance. Between 7:00 PM PST to 10:00 PM PST. Contact CollabNet Support with any questions/issues about this outage.

Dana Nourie
Community Manager
(dnourie @ collab.net) no spaces when you type in your email program.

Software Releases

Download New Integrations!

• CollabNet Desktop - Visual Studio Edition v1.5 (for Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010) and AnkhSVN 2.1
• CollabNet Desktop - Microsoft Windows Edition v1.2
  

Upcoming Events

• August 19: Realizing Lean Software Benefits through Continuous Integration (webinar)
• August 24: CollabNet talks at Agile 2009 in Chicago, "Build and Test in the Cloud" (webinar)
• August 25 and 26: Subversion Development and Configuration Management Workshop
  
  Join us in Brisbane, CA, for a CollabNet Subversion Development and Configuration Management Workshop, designed for individuals who want to take a deep dive into Subversion development and configuration management topics.

News Press Releases, Articles, and News

Read the new press releases, articles, and news about the openCollabNet community and the latest on various products and software.

• Read CollabNet Joins Open Source for America as Founding Member
• Read Forge.mil Leverages CollabNet TeamForge for Launch on DoD Classified Network
• Read GCN’s Top 10 Great .Gov Web Sites

CollabNet Training & Courses

CollabNet offers a complete, role-based training curriculum across the entire CollabNet product line.

Web-based Training: Subversion 1.5 - Bundles:

• Subversion 1.5 for Developers - Module 1 - Essential Concepts (2 hours) - $198
• Subversion 1.5 for Developers - Module 2 - Essential Concepts 2 (1.5 hours) - $198
• Subversion 1.5 for Developers - Module 3 - Enterprise Features (2 hours) - $198
Browse the course catalog and purchase
(click the link called Subversion 1.5 - Bundles)

Recent Blogs from ONCollabNet

ONCollabNet

• Esteem, Peers, and Communality
  Why do people contribute to open-source or inner-source projects?  It's long been recognized that one major aspect is something usually described as "peer esteem."
• The Open Source Community Model & the CollabNet Platform for Non-Developers
  This weekend I attended the Community Leadership Summit in San Jose. Before it even started, I had an interesting discussion with Jack Repenning and a man who was investigating various community models for a homeschooling organization he's working for.

Submerged: CollabNet's Subversion Blog

• Subversion 1.6 Security Improvements
  When you use softwares which requires a username and password to be keyed in every time you access some resource, it becomes a pain.
• Changed handling of output of prelock hook in SVN 1.6
  One of our customers reported a funny issue with the pre-lock.bat hook script.

Projects to Join

openCollabNet has a variety of projects you can join. Here are a few you might consider:

• AnkhSVN - Subversion SourceControl Provider for Visual Studio. The software allows you to perform the most common version control operations directly from inside the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. (Apache 2.0 License)
• SharpSVN - Binding of the Subversion Client API for .Net 2.0 applications contained within a set of xcopy-deployable dll's. Notable users of this api include AnkhSVN 2.0 and CollabNet Desktop - Visual Studio Edition. (Apache 2.0 License)
• Windows Desktop - Access all software lifecycle assets and tools in Subversion, TeamForge & Lab Management from within a native Windows Explorer-like application. (Apache 2.0 License)

CollabNet Webinars and Live Demos

CollabNet Live!

Collaborative Development with TeamForge™

August 19, 10am-11am PDT

Speakers:

• Jeffrey Hammond, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
• Dave West, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
• Chris Clarke, VP, Product Management & Strategy, CollabNet

In this webinar, Forrester analysts Jeffrey Hammond and Dave West will explore Lean Software and discuss how you can reduce waste and increase value by changing your build and delivery process. Chris Clarke, VP of product Management at CollabNet, will then describe how CollabNet customers are realizing the promise of Lean development with CollabNet TeamForge.

• Realizing Lean Software Benefits through Continuous Integration

Webinar Replay

Agile CMMI – The Best of Both Worlds

Speakers:

• Martin Walker Manager of Developer Teams at a leading financial institution
• Victoria Griggs, Product Marketing, CollabNet

Hear how a leading financial institution is using CollabNet's ALM platform to achieve CMMI level 3 compliance and support diverse Agile development practices across their organization.

• View the Agile CMMI – The Best of Both Worlds