Hosted Subversion by Google
I was chatting with Jason about where to quickly host an open source project that offers Subversion for source control.
A quick Google search leads you to...well...Google Code. I have seen a couple projects hosted on Google Code, but never dug into it. The ability to quickly and easily create a new project and use Subversion is pretty killer in my book....not to mention no long approval process (or the common Microsoft bias you see on other Open Source sites).
I have quite a few small projects started locally, if Jason's experiment with it goes well, I will start using it quite a bit.
Speaking of Subversion and Jason:
- Be sure to check out Jason's project. He has been feverishly working on an OpenId library (a port of an existing project). OpenId has been in the news quite a bit and looks like it is going to be used everywhere in the coming months...maybe even Community Server. :)
- We (Telligent) made the switch to Subversion and it has been excellent. Vault served us well (and I still very highly recommend for small teams...especially over Source Safe), but as we continued to grow, it just wasn't working out for us.
- I wonder if I can convince Rob Conery to switch to Google. I love his SubSonic project but got tired of fighting with Team System to make checkins and get updates.
- Google's Developer Knowledge Base on Subversion
If you have used Google Code, especially to host a project, please drop me a line below.
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Comments
Gurkan Yeniceri on on 2.25.2007 at 4:37 AM
After your post, I have created a project on Google.Code for my WLW Plugin. Here is the address: code.google.com/.../subtextsmilies
Peter Mescalchin on on 2.25.2007 at 7:27 AM
Thanks for the heads up Scott - such a great offering.
Thought I would give it a shot, its really easy to setup, and the wiki/issue management interface is pretty good too. Moving source from my local machine to google code via TortoiseSVN was painless.
For anyone interested you can check out my simple ASP.NET photo gallery web app at http://code.google.com/p/mipics/.
Rob Conery on on 2.26.2007 at 10:18 AM
I agree that TFS at CodePlex is a bit of a challenge, but the nice thing is the issue tracker that integrates seamlessly with task engine. I use it a lot :).
I do have something else in the works though that would be a perfect fit for the GoogleCode site...
Brian Barthelt on on 2.26.2007 at 10:27 AM
Scott, I'm curious what (if any) subversion client tools you guys at Telligent are using for interfacing with Subversion on .NET projects. Are you using something like Tortoise outside of visual studio, or something integrated like Ankh? Thx in advance,
-b.
Scott Watermasysk on on 2.26.2007 at 11:13 AM
Hi Brian,
I use Tortoise. I know others are using a wide variety of tools, but I think most are using Tortoise.
I personally do not mind not having it integrated with VS.Net. When we used vault, we always used the GUI tool and stayed away from the VS.Net integration.
We also always use the Merge/Commit style (even with Vault), so this lessens the need to integrate with VS.
HTH,
Scott
Student on on 3.04.2007 at 8:19 AM
Google leads to Google... I hope it won't be like with Microsoft which offers Office, when you buy OS