Will,
do you have any devs running OS' other than windows?? i run
gentoo<http://www.gentoo.org/>and eclipse for development and have
found the subclipse
plugin <http://subclipse.tigris.org/> to work quite well. the combo is free
and cross-platform.
-nathan
On 7/10/07, Will Appleton <wfappleton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/10/07, John.Salinardo@shell.com <John.Salinardo@shell.com> wrote:
> >
> > We are using SVN for a RDM globalization project for a large Oil and
> > Gas company. In the beginning we used ClearCase and scraped it for SVN -
> > ClearCase was just too cumbersome and didn't bode that well across all our
> > platforms.
> >
> > Currently incorporating SVN with Pearl, ANT, - Hooks in VB and Python.
> > ACRs are tracked using ClearQuest.
> >
> > We choose SVN b/c we have fairly large group of off shore developers and
> > testers - We do not allow "branching" which is probably saving us from some
> > headaches. - Fully enjoying the ease of automation scripts and versioning.
> >
> > One thing to look out for is going to be the amount of disk space SVN
> > can eat up - you have stay on top of your dumps and your updates - if a
> > couple get away you are looking at some long update times which peg the
> > machine. We experienced this on a Virtual Build Server for R1 (on the other
> > hand someone thought it was a good idea to compress the drive - Big No, No)
> > - switching to a new server for R2.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From:* Nathan Nobbe [mailto:quickshiftin@gmail.com]
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 10, 2007 10:15 AM
> > *To:* Srinivas2007
> > *Cc:* users@subversion.tigris.org
> > *Subject:* Re: Big companies using Subversion ?
> >
> > Srinivas,
> >
> > although i havent worked w/ ClearCase or Accurev, what immediately comes
> > to mind is that those are much more
> > than a VCS. I think subversion coupled with a front-end like Trac<http://trac.edgewall.org/>enables teams to accomplish much more than they
> > would in the absence threreof.
> > Did i mention the combo is free? :)
> >
> > -nathan
> >
> > On 7/10/07, Srinivas2007 <srinivaspatel@gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > At our company (a large financial institution) we narrowed the choice
> > > down to
> > > three commercial vendors and SVN. After evaluating and piloting for
> > > over
> > > three months we selected Accurev over SVN and Microsoft VS TFS. We
> > > still
> > > have divisions using mainly ClearCase and some with SVN, but are
> > > slowly
> > > migrating the projects that make sense (where it is necessary to
> > > manage many
> > > releases in parallel or offshore and distributed teams for example)
> > > over to
> > > Accurev as they get a window of opportunity. SVN can be a good enough
> > > solution for some smaller projects, but it can get hairy when you have
> > > to
> > > support multiple product versions in the field and find bugs down the
> > > road.
> > > You also just don't get the same visibility over the process that
> > > Accurev
> > > provides which benefits both management and developers alike. For us,
> > > it
> > > just didn't make sense to allow SVN to spread and we believe the value
> > > we
> > > get from commercial is well worth the cost.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Anthony Muller wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking for reference of big companies using Subversion as
> > > Version
> > > > Control System.
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to find something about their point of view using
> > > Subversion
> > > > and why this choice.
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Anthony
> > >
> >
> We're a very large insurance-related business. We have about 60
> developers, who connect using VPN or the office LAN/WAN. Software products
> are written in Progress 4GL, .Net, JAVA, PLSQL and other languages and
> reporting tools. We've got most of our .Net users on SVN/TSVN although a
> few are using the AnhkSVN plugin. Most of the Oracle devs are using it
> though the DBA team is dragging their feet. :) We're going to move our
> Progress team (about 30 developers) to SVN and TSVN in a couple of weeks.
> We're also going to use SVN with Apache for WebDAV access for the
> documentation folks, though that project is down the road a month or so.
>
> We've looked seriously at Perforce, ClearCase, and Accurev. ClearCase was
> a ClearNoGo for us. Too big and we'd lose on of our company distinctives
> using it: Speed of reaction and short time to market. CC is just to
> unwieldy for our mostly agile environment. Perforce is a good fit and
> Accurev is liked (alot) by some of our new management hires. SVN seems to
> be a compromise between all these camps that everyone can live with. Our
> branching strategy is very simple, so Accurev wouldn't be a clear win for us
> at this point. As SVN matures, the gap between it and Perforce is narrowing
> quickly. As the merge tracking feature matures, Accurev may not be so
> attractive either. So far we're very happy with SVN and TSVN. Both
> Subversion and TortoiseSVN are my candidates for the best open source
> projects _ever_.
>
> Will
>
Received on Tue Jul 10 18:40:59 2007