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| 2008-09-15 | Posted By: Esmond Kane Distributed vs Centralized Version Control Forge now has Git support so I've been busy revisiting the buzz around distributed version control. A nice graphical illustration of DVCS is here: http://betterexplained.com/articles/intro-to-distributed-version-control-illustrated/ Potentially Forge has hosted some element of DVCS for some time. SVN has a distributed fork SVK (http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/HomePage). Git also offers transparent SVN support (http://www.flavio.castelli.name/howto_use_git_with_svn). As with any polarizing topic, the opposing SCM camps offer many viewpoints and there are lots of online comparisons of DVCS (Git/Cogito vs Bazaar vs Mercurial vs Darcs etc) vs CVCS (CVS vs SVN vs Perforce vs Arch etc). Theres a nice hg-biased perspective here: http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2007/12/28/dvcs/. Please chime in with your perspective, we will escalate any concerns over the Forge implementation (or lack thereof) to the vendor. Putting aside the political hubub, I stumbled across GitHub (http://github.com/). Its main feature is Campfire and Lighthouse integration for the whole 2.0 GTD crowd. Like Forge, it adds a happy medium to the DVCS vs CVS debate and integrates additional project management features (ticketing and task management, communication etc). Unlike Forge, it looks to be expensive to scale beyond simple public hosting.  Discussions |
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| 2008-09-12 | Posted By: Esmond Kane Devunity Another hosted repository startup just destealthed: http://www.devunity.com/ The primary attraction is built in deployment to Google Apps, Amazon EC2 etc. Discussions |
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| 2008-09-05 | Posted By: Esmond Kane Forge upgrade Sunday 20080914 The GForgeGroup have released an updated version of the Gforge Advanced Server used to power this site. The following improvements will be of immediate benefit to our community: - Contextual Help - Major Wiki Enhancements - New Theme, GUI makeover - Git SCM Plugin - Advanced Workflow options with SCM and Field Change triggers - Cross-project reporting - Default SVN directories are now created automatically when repository is created - Doc Folder browsing Speedup - Can now drag and drop Doc Folders to other parent folders - Create/edit supported docs in GForge - Project-level audit trail for tracker item delete, tracker delete, frs file/release/package delete, document version and folder deletes You can test the new interface and features here: http://gforge.com/gf/ The Forge admin team have tentatively scheduled the 20 minute upgrade for 12 noon on Sunday September 14th. Discussions |
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| 2008-04-30 | Posted By: Esmond Kane OLD Forge/Forge0 Decommissioning 20080504 The new GForge Advanced Server went live in January and is available at http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu. The old GForge server has been available in the interim at http://forge0.abcd.harvard.edu for comparison purposes and to facilitate manually migrating wikis. We will decommission the old GForge server on Sunday May 4 at 12 noon. If you have any questions, please contact the Forge Admin team (http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/support/wiki/?pagename=How+can+I+get+help%3F). Discussions |
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