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Sean
Sean

Reputation: 1403

Best way to use Subversion as a project communication tool?

If the only server allowed for a project was a Subversion (svn) server, what would be the best way to use it as a project communication tool? For example, is there a good way that it could be used as a wiki, bug tracker, and/or blogging platform?

Note: the server is hosted by Apache, and has the basic html interface.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 628

Answers (4)

Christian C. Salvadó
Christian C. Salvadó

Reputation: 827606

Subversion is a version control system, in order to have the features you ask, you will have to use a third party add-on, I recommend you to try Trac, it's an open source project management and bug tracking system for software development projects and is very easy to integrate with Subversion.

It gives you:

  • Project management features
  • Online repository browsing
  • Wiki
  • Ticket System

Check this demo site.

Upvotes: 5

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 20360

Don't use it or come up with some bad scheme to use svn as a communications tool. Use some other wiki - there are tons out there and wherever you are hosting your svn you can put a wiki. I second Trac, by the way. It will integraee nicely with svn.

Upvotes: 1

Rob
Rob

Reputation: 48369

Subversion is great at what it does, and what it does is version source code, although it'll work well enough for other text-based formats, and binaries, with reduced capabilities.

However, as a one-stop project management tool, it falls rather short of the mark; it's far easier to track and organise bug reports and feature requests in a product that's designed to do that. Likewise, it's also far easier to use an actual wiki engine as a documentation wiki.

If you're looking for something fairly compact, you might consider Trac, as has been mentioned elsewhere, which is a decent little issue tracker/wiki/project planning tool with good source control integration.

Upvotes: 1

user43636
user43636

Reputation: 177

Subversion is a file versioning control system strictly. Not a project tool. I guess you could use it to store project files in certain directories (e.g. project plan), but it is not ideal by any means.

Upvotes: 0

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