We were looking for an alternative to our legacy proprietary version control system. After some research we have zeroed in on the open source Subversion as the perfect candidate for our Software Configuration Management (SCM). We had earlier used StarTeam system by Starbase( which later got acquired by Borland in early 2003) with a pretty good experience but for one instance where the backend database got corrupted and we had to recover from a backup . It had internet interface which allowed developers working remotely to collaborate and perform version control. It also had integrated bug tracking system which was kind of neat! As 2007 dawned, need was felt to do away with the proprietary version control system and see what was out there in the free open-source world. Soon SVN (Subversion) came to our radar and all our due diligence pointed to it being a robust system, as good as any other commercial product. Here’s a link to this product with its history and some of its features. I also found this which compares the different bug tracking systems available today which can work with SVN. Some of the popular choices seem to be – BugZilla, JIRA ,Trac . We have also identified tortoisesvn as our preferred windows shell client for SVN. Tortoise integrates nicely with the windows explorer and makes version control a breeze! We are looking forward to using this tool and be part of this movement!

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We were looking for an alternative to our legacy proprietary version control system. After some research we have zeroed in on the open source Subversion as the perfect candidate for our Software Configuration Management (SCM). We had earlier used StarTeam system by Starbase( which later got acquired by Borland in early 2003) with a pretty good experience but for one instance where the backend database got corrupted and we had to recover from a backup . It had internet interface which allowed developers working remotely to collaborate and perform version control. It also had integrated bug tracking system which was kind of neat! As 2007 dawned, need was felt to do away with the proprietary version control system and see what was out there in the free open-source world. Soon SVN (Subversion) came to our radar and all our due diligence pointed to it being a robust system, as good as any other commercial product. Here’s a link to this product with its history and some of its features. I also found this which compares the different bug tracking systems available today which can work with SVN. Some of the popular choices seem to be – BugZilla, JIRA ,Trac . We have also identified tortoisesvn as our preferred windows shell client for SVN. Tortoise integrates nicely with the windows explorer and makes version control a breeze! We are looking forward to using this tool and be part of this movement!