We are happy to report the successful upgrade of the Harvard ABCD Forge from gForge AS 5.7 to 6.0.1. Many, many thanks to Norton Allen for all the hard work! Please contact the Forge admin team if you experience any problems.

This release primarily focuses on security and bug fixes. You can see the full changelog (see more)

The ABCD Forge reduces the effort to stand up tools necessary for SDLC, facilitates campus and external collaboration and acts as a persistent store for Harvard’s code, public or private. The Forge has been in place since 2004.

Our admin team gives periodic presentations to various groups, ABCD, CAIT and otherwise. Some of the older reports and presentations are archived on the site here. The support... (see more)

Last year, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) launched http://forge.mil , a collaboration site built around some of the same principles and components used on the Harvard Forge. The DISA site is based on the TeamForge product from Collabnet. Work continues to broaden the initiative into a civilian agency site, the proposed forge.gov. Theres an excellent (see more)

As of Friday, August 13, new network ACLs have been applied, and mailing list operation has been restored. The same ACL changes have also allowed us to enable anonymous CVS checkout via the pserver interface for the first time. This should make it easier for casual collaborators to access CVS repositories.

The ABCD Forge server has been migrated to a VM hosted by Harvard FAS IT. In the process, we have upgraded to gForge Advanced Server 5.7. Information about features and fixes in 5.7 are available on the gForge site. There are many components to gForge, and we have made an effort to test them all. If you discover any problem, please let us know as soon as possible at abcd-forge@abcd.harvard.edu.