Entries Related to ‘Subversion’

ViewVC is a full-featured browser interface for the CVS and Subversion version control systems (VCS). Even hard-core command-line users will find something to like in this GUI front end.

The version control system (VCS) debate is one of the less heated “holy wars” in the Linux/Unix world. Most of the conversation revolves around Git vs. Subversion vs. CVS, but other systems may be a better fit for your needs. For instance, Mercurial is written in Python and C, which makes it easily hackable if you need some functionality the project doesn’t offer already. It’s also fast. And it has other advantages that make it the choice of popular open source projects such as Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, Dovecot and Vim.

The Redmine project management system includes Gantt charts, a calendar, a roadmap, and other helpful features you can use to keep track of what’s going on with your software development projects.

So, you’re interested in trying out Git – or you’ve even tried it for your own private projects and liked it – but at work, the existing repositories all use Subversion. Maybe you plan to switch over to Git, but you want a commitment-free tryout before you take the plunge and switch wholesale. Fear not: git-svn is here to help you.

In the past several years, open source has gone mainstream. A new survey by OpenLogic shows that virtually every enterprise is using open source software. More importantly, open source code is no longer just coming in the “back door” through unsanctioned downloads by enterprises developers. Instead, open source software is being welcomed in through the front door of the enterprise as an equal or preferred alternative to proprietary, closed-source software. These new survey results confirm what many in the open source community have already observed: enterprises have clearly transitioned to a new stage in open source adoption.

With Nagios, the leading open source infrastructure monitoring application, you can monitor your whole enterprise by using a distributed monitoring scheme in which local slave instances of Nagios perform monitoring tasks and report the results back to a single master. You manage all configuration, notification, and reporting from the master, while the slaves do all the work.

While you can install any software on the Linux desktop with just a couple of mouse clicks, enterprise apps are a different story, because they require a lot of infrastructure software, from high-end web and database servers to basic libraries. As a system administrator you may spend hours putting together components before you can deploy an app on the network. Fortunately, some convenient software tools can do the grunt work for you.

If your organization hosts websites, chances are you’re using Apache, the world’s most popular web server. Apache has many advanced capabilities that administrators can implement. This article discusses how to integrate Apache with DAV (Distrubuted Authoring and Versioning) to create a file server, along with LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) to check your users’ profiles for permission to read or write files.

mod_python is more than just a CGI/WSGI alternative — you can use it not only to serve Python-based applications that run faster than traditional CGI, but you can actually use exposed Apache APIs to write full-blown Apache modules using the Python language. In this tutorial we’ll walk you through the process of creating a simple application using most of the features that mod_python delivers.

A continuous integration (CI) engine is an automated build system that checks out the most current code from a source code repository, builds it, and makes the resulting artifacts available for download and review. This tutorial covers the setup of a continuous integration server for Java projects with Hudson, one of the top open source CI engines.