Posted by C. G. Brown
Fri, 02 May 2008 12:32:00 GMT
Did you know you can use a ProjectLocker hosted Subversion repository for WebDAV storage as well? To do this, simply put the URL of your Subversion repository into your preferred WebDAV client. Each time you copy or update a file in the repository, it increments the version number, so you can use both WebDAV and standard Subversion access on the same repository. However, since you can have unlimited projects with ProjectLocker, you can create one project to store files and another to store code that you'd manage in a more typical way.
Each operating system and version accesses WebDAV differently, so we recommend that you read the documentation or check Google for your particular operating system to determine the best client or tools. ProjectLocker customers can file tickets with ProjectLocker Support if they're having any issues getting their WebDAV to work.
Tags subversion, tips, webdav | no comments
Posted by C. G. Brown
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:12:00 GMT
We've made several additions to ProjectLocker Lite Trac recently to improve your experience. Here are some of the new features:
Plugins
We've installed the following plugins:
If there are other plugins that you think you and other customers may find useful, file a ticket with us and we'll install them, pending a security review and making sure they don't cause any issues. You can activate plugins that we have installed by going to the Admin menu in Trac itself.
Improved Subversion-Trac Interaction
We've installed the trac-contrib commit hook that allows you to cause action to occur on Trac tickets. If you use the right syntax, you can make commit messages leave comments on Trac tickets or even mark tickets as fixed just by doing a Subversion commit. The syntax is described in detail in the Support FAQ.
Trac Upgrade via Web
Installation of some plugins requires an upgrade of your Trac environment. After some customer feedback, we have added a link to run trac-admin upgrade from ProjectLocker Portal, so after installing the Tags or Discussions plugin, if your Trac instance indicates that it needs an upgrade, go to your Trac Service Properties for your project and click "Run trac-admin Upgrade". Your instance will upgrade itself on the spot and you can proceed with your work.
As always, we welcome your feedback on how we can make our service more useful for you.
Tags plugins, subversion, trac, upgrade | 1 comment
Posted by Damon Young
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:37:00 GMT
We love feedback.
So much so, we even have an e-mail address soley dedicated to receiving the thoughts of our clients, called, unsurprisingly, feedback@projectlocker.com.
At this moment in particular, we would love to hear from all of our current clients with your thoughts on our hosted Subversion service. What do you love? What do you love less? What would you like to see changed?
Send us an e-mail. Let us know what you think.
Tags clients, control, current, hosted, SCM, source, subversion, SVN, version | 3 comments
Posted by Damon Young
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:08:00 GMT
While we're very big proponents of Subversion here at ProjectLocker, we also recognize that even the best tools and, consequently, the teams that use them can be crippled by the wrong development processes. With that in mind, here is an excellent article by Henrik Kniberg, a Certified Scrum Master with Crisp, a Stockholm-based Agile consulting firm. In it, he proposes a methodology to most effectively make use of your version control tool when applying Agile best practices in an environment with multiple & distinct teams working from common code base. Notice that he never mentions a specific version control tool, just a set of procedures and team protocols to help optimize the process. More details at the link below:
"Version Control for Multiple Agile Teams"
Watch this blog for more posts in the future on best practices and other development resources we think will help you build better software.
Tags agile, best, development, hosted, lifecycle, practices, scrum, software, subversion, SVN | no comments | no trackbacks
Posted by C. G. Brown
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:11:00 GMT
We are happy to announce that ProjectLocker is now integrated with FogBugz issue tracking system. If you are currently a FogBugz customer, just go to Integration Settings in ProjectLocker, set the FogBugz settings based on the values in the Perl script they generate for you, and you're all set. ProjectLocker will notify FogBugz every time there is a commit message containing "BugzID: [bug ID #]" on a single line. Your commits show up as Checkins in FogBugz, and if you like, you can configure your site settings to point back to ProjectLocker's source browser.
We have also installed Hudora's Trac-FogBugz plugin for Trac, to provide a convenient link back to FogBugz. Just ask us and we can get you configured with that at no additional charge.
We are big fans of Trac here, but we understand that some customers need different features for issue management, have already chosen other tools, or just prefer other tools. We want to help our customers work in the way that's best for them. Keep telling us what products you are happiest with and that you'd like to use in conjunction with ProjectLocker's best in class Subversion hosting and Trac hosting. We're listening.
Tags commits, fogbugz, issue, subversion, tracking | 1 comment
Posted by C. G. Brown
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:08:00 GMT
We've just released an integration between ProjectLocker and Basecamp for those users who use Basecamp for project collaboration and have enabled the Basecamp API in their Basecamp account. ProjectLocker Subversion hosting users will be able to:
- Send commit messages from Subversion to Basecamp as Basecamp messages.
- Create new ProjectLocker projects from existing Basecamp project.
- Associate users in ProjectLocker with users in Basecamp, so that messages actually come from the committing user where possible.
If there are more ways that we can make communication between ProjectLocker and Basecamp more useful to you, please let us know. We are excited about our growing list of integrations and are always looking for more ways to make our services useful to you and the way you work. Of course, if you have any issues using the integration, don't hesitate to file a ticket, and our team will promptly resolve your problems.
Tags basecamp, commits, integrations, subversion | 2 comments | no trackbacks
Posted by Damon Young
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:45:00 GMT
A recent entry at O'Reilly's OnLamp blog, entitled "Subversion for BSD With All the Bells and Whistles" described the time and effort that an experienced system administrator like Jeff Palmer had to take to install and configure a local instance of Subversion from scratch. In speaking with Jeff, he told me that it took up 2 days to make that first install, although now, he's probably cut the process down to 1.5 to 2 hours. In addition, he spends roughly an hour a week on maintanence.
A time savings, to be sure. But, a developer team could have access to a comparable instance of Subversion literally within moments of signing up from our website.
In addition to near instantaneous provisioning for most clients, ProjectLocker's user interfaces simplify the process of team and user management to such a degree that, for many of our clients, those tasks can be assigned to non-technical managers, freeing your more technical team members to concentrate on your most stubborn technical challenges.
It also doesn't take into account the time & materials required to both implement and maintain a backup & recovery strategy comparable to the one provided by ProjectLocker for all of our services.
Or the time saved on your development efforts by the speed of a ProjectLocker restore should such a disaster occur.
Or the flexibility of downloading backups on demand.
Or the convenience of receiving commit notifications in either Twitter or Jabber.
Or ProjectLocker's proprietary Subversion enhancements, like our Analytics tool.
In short, the time and expense your system administrators can save every day by choosing ProjectLocker is just the tip of our software quality iceberg.
Just something to consider.
Tags control, hosting, LAMP, O, Reilly, SCM, source, subversion, SVN, version | no comments | no trackbacks
Posted by Runako Godfrey
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:41:00 GMT
As of yesterday, users of ProjectLocker Subversion hosting can choose to receive commit notifications in two new formats: Jabber -- used by Google Chat, as well as many other instant messenger servers; and Twitter.
To enable these notifications, simply edit the Subversion settings for your project and specify which users should receive Twitter and/or Jabber notifications. Notifications are on a per-project basis, so you can decide which projects merit instant messages. Each user can then update his/her profile with the appropriate Jabber ID or Twitter ID. (If you're using Google Chat, your GMail address is your Jabber ID.) Be sure to accept the invitation from ProjectLocker in your Jabber client, Google Chat, or Twitter, or you will not receive any notifications.
We hope this addition will help keep your team in closer touch, and keep your developers more up-to-date on the evolution of your code.
Tags subversion | 1 comment
Posted by C. G. Brown
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:57:00 GMT
While we take every precaution to make sure customer data is backed up and protected, our ProjectLocker Lite customers have been clamoring for the ability to download Subversion backups and Trac backups, similar to the Archival service for ProjectLocker Enterprise. The ability to take on-demand backups is now here. For just $2.50 per project per backup, you can create a backup accessible in ProjectLocker Portal and downloadable for 30 days. You can access this via the Backups section in ProjectLocker Portal, visible to all account administrators.
We are open to suggestions for features and improvements to this service. We're trying to provide as many services and features as we can while keeping the prices low, but we'd love to hear your thoughts.
Tags backups, downloads, repository, subversion, trac | 3 comments | no trackbacks
Posted by C. G. Brown
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:52:00 GMT
We just completed an upgrade this weekend to the ProjectLocker Enterprise servers. We upgraded Subversion to the latest release, Subversion 1.4.6, and Trac to version Trac 0.11. We've also put in a few performance tweaks and infrastructure changes that ought to lead to even better performance. Last but not least, we've upgraded our backup solution, so we are now providing 30-day retention of backups for all Enterprise accounts.
We're pleased with the results so far, but of course if you run into any post-upgrade issues, don't hesitate to contact us.
Tags maintenance, upgrade | 2 comments | no trackbacks
