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  Roberto Galoppini 11:50 am on April 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: BillPortelli, BlackDuck ( 6 ), CollsbNet, TimYeaton ( 2 )   

  Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck + CollabNet on Application Development 

  CollabNet – that will soon host a free live virtual conference about agile application development – and Black Duck Software – that just announced a brilliant 1st quarter – will deliver on the 21 of April a joint webinar around leveraging new techniques in software development.

  Tim Yeaton, CEO of Black Duck Software (interview), and Bill Portelli, CEO of Collabnet (interview), will answer the question of how to improve development by leveraging: (More …)

   

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  Roberto Galoppini 4:01 pm on November 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Apache ( 5 ), Apache incubator ( 2 ), Apache Way, BillPortelli, CollabNet, GregStein ( 2 ), JustinErenkratnz, open source communities ( 7 ), open source development   

  Apache Incubator: Extraordinary Made Ordinary, the Subversion case 

  Few days ago Subversion has been submitted to the Apache Incubator, a move praised by many as the natural fit for both projects, both for technical reasons (Apache projects use Subversion, Subversion relies on many Apache projects) and a shared vision about IP (same license) and community governance (same voting process).

  Bill Portelli, Collabnet CEO, and Justin Erenkrantz,  Apache Software Foundation President, answered few questions aimed at better  understanding if and at which extent this is a win-win move. Let’s start from the corporate side.

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    Josef Assad 5:23 pm on November 26, 2009 Permalink

    I don’t think svn’s failure to attract developers has anything to do with what umbrella it’s under, Tigris or Apache. It’s more the fact that the world has moved on to distributed SCM.

    Reading the answers, it seems like they expect enterprise customers to bring the innovation to the codebase. While I have trouble imagining what innovation could compete with distributed without actually BEING distributed, that – if genuine – will be more interesting to watch than any change of umbrella organisation.

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    Roberto Galoppini 10:00 am on November 28, 2009 Permalink

    Hi Josef,

    I might agree about the general tendency towards distributed Software Configuration Systems, especially among open source communities.

    So said, today ASF and many other organizations are happy with Subversion, and they might join the development team.

    Time will tell, one year from now I’ll check it out.