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Gurtle

Posted 6 days ago by nob...@example.com (steveking)

TortoiseSVN 1.5 allows using plug-ins for specific issue trackers.

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Posted 6 days ago by nob...@example.com (steveking)

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TortoiseSVN 1.5.3 released

Posted 7 days ago by nob...@example.com (steveking)

TortoiseSVN 1.5.3 has been released, still linked against Subversion
1.5.2.

This is a bugfix/maintenance release only. No new features were added
since 1.5.2.

You can get it from our download page.

Steering Subversion

Posted 11 days ago by nob...@example.com (C. Michael Pilato)

When the Subversion project first launched, it was blessed to have
something that many much older projects still lack: a clear direction. It
would have been easy — and certainly the temptation existed — to try to
make Subversion all ... [More] things to all people. Why settle for "a compelling
replacement for CVS" (which was the goal at the time) when we could shoot
for "best-of-class version control"? "Next-generation SCM solution"? "All
that and a bag of chips?" Here's why: so the developers could get
anything accomplished at all. It's as the old Proverb says (though
admittedly in a different context), "Where there is no vision, the people
perish." Without a single, clear sense of direction, you're left either
meandering about with no sense of direction at all or (worse) stalemated
by N senses of opposing directions. So how do the leaders of an open
source software project choose a direction and set goals? And where do
you, the reader, fit into all of this? Read on.

As I said before, Subversion originally had a vision of being a
compelling replacement for CVS and nothing more. And that's exactly what
Subversion 1.0 was. But where do you go when you've been operating with a
single goal in mind and then you reach that goal? Well, in Subversion's
case, the 1.0 target was never even considered as the last station on the
line. The developers always knew we wanted to push well past being a mere
replacement for CVS. Really, the sky was the limit on where we could have
driven Subversion. The project had already amassed a feature wishlist
from its own developers anxious to scratch their version control itches
and from early-adopting Subversion users. And new ideas were popping up
daily. So Subversion started picking away at those features which seemed
to its developers to provide the most bang for the buck.

Meanwhile, our little software tool was finding its way into the hands of
a different class of user than we tended to interact with in the open
source arena. CollabNet packaged Subversion 1.0 into its CollabNet
Enterprise Edition software, and suddenly Subversion was being adopted
officially by segments of some rather large corporate enterprises.
Instead of being used to replace only CVS, Subversion was displacing the
likes of Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe, Perforce, and in some cases,
threatening even heavyweights like IBM Rational's ClearCase. Those kinds
of installations brought with them a whole new class of feature and
enhancement requests.

CollabNet — as the vendor which founded Subversion, remained the greatest
source of funding for its development, and delivered Subversion to the
Enterprise — recognizes the value of clear goals. And it also recognizes
that one of the key benefits it can provide to the Subversion open source
community is the valuable feedback of its customers, which tend to shy
away from public discussion forums. CollabNet has over time helped the
Subversion developers to get a better sense of what its customers are
looking for in an enterprise-class version control system, mostly notably
with its activities around the requirements gathering, design,
development, and beta testing program for the merge tracking feature
recently released in Subversion 1.5.

Those of you familiar with the Subversion 1.5 release and the merge
tracking development process know that this was a beast of a feature.
Hard to define, hard to design, and hard to implement, this flagship
feature of the 1.5 release was somewhat all-consuming at times. And the
feature still isn't completely finished. But as the Subversion developers
come up for air in the wake of the 1.5 release, we find ourselves at that
familiar place again — the place where another major milestone is behind
us and we're looking forward to the future. As always, there's no
shortage of wishlist items to consider, and development is already well
under way on some of those things. But we continue to learn more about
our users, about their needs, about ourselves, and about what Subversion
can and cannot do today. And that's where you fit in.

While it is true that sometimes programmers wish they could turn off all
the noise around them so they can focus on the task at hand, Subversion's
developers have always understood that there's usually some signal in
that noise, a thread of meaningful input that's worth attending to. Your
participation in the Subversion development community is vital to the
continued success of this software. We need and want to hear what you
have to say about Subversion and how it does or doesn't meet your version
control needs.

To that end, allow me to make you aware of a special opportunity you will
have to do exactly this. The second annual SubConf Subversion user
conference is being held October 14-16, 2008, in Munich. CollabNet has
worked with the conference organizers to arrange for a special roundtable
discussion session (to be held Tuesday evening, the 14th) in which you,
the Subversion user, can meet some of the Subversion committers in person
and share your experiences with us. This is not a lecture-style session
where we do all the talking. We want to listen. This is a great way for
those of you averse to communicating in open source forums to make your
opinions and desires known. I'll be chairing the roundtable session, and
many of my colleagues will be present, too. We hope to see you there!

For more information on the SubConf conference, visit
http://www.subconf.conf/ [German].
For information about the SubConf Subversion Roundtable, visit
http://www.subconf.com/roundtable/ [German]. [Less]

Steering Subversion

Posted 11 days ago by C. Michael Pilato

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