Hot news coming at OSCON 2011 & a bit of politics on the Subversion Dev list by David Richards
At WANdisco we have been looking forward to OSCON 2011 for quite some time. Anyone who knows our company will know that we invest heavily in open source projects, in particular Apache Subversion, which is central to many of the enterprise servicesthat we provide. Subversion (SVN) is used by a vast array of users for source code management, from individual innovators to multinational blue chip companies. But SVN is just one of countless potentially world-changing open source applications.
So it’s always invigorating to catch up with a broad spectrum of open source luminaries to share experiences, explore new ideas, draw inspiration and share mutual aspiration. This highlight of the open source calendar is being held from July 25-29 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.
This year we are even more excited about OSCON because we have some big announcements of our own. We believe that these announcements in the coming days will dramatically change the landscape of how developer tools are purchased, deployed and used.
In late April we released our own freely available open ALM platform – uberSVN – which has transformed Subversion into an extensible platform, empowering software developers by enabling them to use a wider choice of toolsets, which can be combined to best fit specific business requirements. The reviews, across the board, have been fantastic; I keep telling people that I have never been involved in such a successful launch.
Also incorporating social coding into Subversion for the first time, uberSVN has clocked up tens of thousands of installations in less than three months and rave reviews keep coming, usually highlighting the ease of installation and excellent usability that the platform provides.
Those attending OSCON 2011 have a great opportunity to win $2,500 by downloading uberSVN from a USB stick being handed out at the conference. We are pretty certain that you will be impressed with the platform whether you win the cash or not! Failing that you can grab one of our cool t-shirts or stickers.
uberSVN was a factor in WANdisco being included in the Red Herring Top 100 North America list and we have been working hard to ensure that the platform keeps up with the expectation of the massive SVN user community and, working on feedback from Subversion users we are now able to reveal some major new enhancements.
Software developers have been keen to find quicker and easier ways to deploy the tools they need and considerably reduce costs at the same time. And WANdisco has a solution…
Interested? We’ll be revealing full details very soon so keep your eyes peeled!
In addition to this major development we have a major partnership announcement looming large on the horizon too! As you would expect from WANdisco we will be hooking up with an organization regarded as the best at what they do. We pride ourselves on the quality, functionality and reliability of the services and products that we supply and we partner with companies who are held in the same regard by users of SVN. The announcement we have later in the week will also herald another significant leap forward for the capabilities of uberSVN!
We look forward to interacting with conference goers at OSCON and open source users around the world that are increasingly discovering the power that uberSVN delivers. Make sure you keep up with our upcoming announcements on this groundbreaking platform and its associated products including training, consulting services and support.
Finally, a bit of politics from the Subversion open source project. As you may be aware we committed to improving branching & merging several months ago. With Subversion 1.7 close to release we have been working for several weeks with Andy Singleton and his team at Assembla. Andy has some interesting ideas that we have been exploring to “fix Subversion merge”. Frankly the reaction of some and I mean some on the Subversion Dev list is, to put it mildly, disappointing. If someone new appears with fresh ideas why should the first reaction be a passive-aggressive “no you can’t do that”. It’s strange how the naysayers all derive from the same place as Harold Evans once famously said of journalism “it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.” Well we are going to sweat! We will not be derailed or distracted and our core Subversion guys like the idea so we are planning to build a prototype. This is something we see as vital for Subversion users. Watch this space!
- By David Richards - CEO of WANdisco
http://blogs.wandisco.com/2011/07/21/hot-news-coming-at-oscon-2011-a-bit-of-politics-on-the-subversion-dev-list/