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CollabNet Named One of India’s Great Companies To Work For 2012

Posted by Bill Portelli on July 16, 2012

Over the past few months, our company has pulled together to conceive, create products and services, and roll out to the market a transformational strategy called Enterprise Cloud Development.  We couldn’t have done it without all of us pulling together as a team in a highly collaborative, passionate, and global way.  Thanks again.  This is the same teamwork and excellence that has allowed CollabNet to be recognized over the years with dozens of technology and business awards.

Along these lines, it is with great pleasure that I am able to announce our latest corporate award.  Today, CollabNet has been named as one of a select group of companies as “India’s Great Companies To Work For 2012”  by Great Place to Work ® Institute.  In fact, we are ranked 8th in the 1000 employee company category and in the Top 50 in all of India!  As many of you know, CollabNet was one of the first U.S. based companies to fully commit to India with the creation of CollabNet Software Private Limited (CSPL) and we just recently celebrated nine years in the region.  The Great Place to Work Institute Award is based upon an employee-centric framework that measures the levels of trust, pride and camaraderie prevalent in an organization.  It’s this type of employee collaboration and enthusiasm, both at CSPL and CollabNet, that helps create our unique innovation and global reach, as well as our contributions to IT India and the worldwide market.

Please join me in congratulating our team in India, as well as everyone in CollabNet that has collaborated with and supported the CSPL Team over the years.  Spread the word!  Share this news via Twitter: #CollabNet Named to India’s Best Places to Work in 2012 www.greatplacetowork.in/best-companies/indias-best-companies-to-work-for

Again, congratulations to CSPL, and all of CollabNet!

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What’s New in TeamForge 6.2 Webinar Q&A

Posted by bzeichick on July 10, 2012

On June 26th, I presented the webinar, “TeamForge Release 6.2 – What’s New,” In the session, I talked about how TeamForge 6.2 can help you increase developer productivity, drive transparency and ensure compliance. I also did live demos of the new features and explained the functionality.

We also had an engaging Q&A session where I referenced resources and in some cases, next steps on how to get started or get going with TeamForge so I thought it would be helpful to post the Q&A as a follow-up and thank you to those who joined me.

If you missed the session live, you can watch the recording and download my slides. For more information about this topic, please visit www.collab.net/teamforge6.2 here, you can access additional webinars, informative assets, and free product downloads.

Don’t forget to register for our upcoming webinars. CollabNet offers multiple webinars a month that cover a variety of topics related to software development.

As promised, here’s the follow up to the live audience questions.

Q: Are there any improvements in terms of installations/setup or does it follow the same old installation steps as in 6.1?
A:In 6.1.1 we’ve made significant improvements to the installation of TeamForge.  For instance to install TeamForge it requires one yum command – “yum install teamforge”, and for upgrades, it’s simply “yum upgrade teamforge” In addition we’ve added a  new dependency checker that shows you what’s going on during the installation process. And these additions that we made in 6.1.1 are part of the 6.2 installation as well.

Q: Would these reports be available in the CollabNet desktop plug-in (he just showed the browser)?
A: They’ll be available through a web page interface directly in the desktops, similar to how burndown, capacity, open by priority, and open vs closed charts are available today.

Q: Is there a report or dashboard that shows all of a developer’s tracker assignments across projects? Similar to My Assigned Items, but meant to be viewed by a manager.
A: Yes.  We have an add-on (CLI) available today that allows you to create custom reports and add them to a project page. This Command Line Interface (CLI) add-on allows you to create custom reports with data directly from the datamart, and allows you to push them to existing project pages.

Q: Is there an additional cost associated with the GIT pieces?
A: Yes, it is an additional license to get Git SCM on top of TeamForge. Please talk with your TeamForge Account Manager or Support Representative for particular pricing.

Q: How difficult is the migration process from an existing 5.4 Linux server to a 6.2 Windows server?  Any quick tips?
A: Currently we only offer 6.2 on Linux, and we’re working on setting a release date for 6.2 on windows soon. In addition, we’re targeting same OS upgrades, so from Linux 5.4 to Linux 6.2, and not to Windows 6.2. We do have a migration script that migrates the data, but if you want to upgrade to Windows, I’d suggest working directly with our Professional Services team to ensure that everything goes smoothly, once we have 6.2 available on Windows.

Q: How does TeamForge compare to TeamFoundationServer, and which points do you often use to convince people to switch from tfs over to tf (aside from the usual tfs is just ms centric and bound to its own version control system)
A: The biggest difference is how TeamForge can support several different SCM types, such as Subversion, Git, Perforce, and CVS. Also Microsoft locks you int their methodologies and fixed processes, whereas TeamForge is committed to being process agnostic so that it can handle agile methodologies, waterfall methodologies, and everything in between. Further, the installation and configuration process is a lot more lightweight and straightforward than TeamFoundation Server, and in most cases can be done in an afternoon by one site administrator, as opposed to having a team of consulting coming in to get TeamFoundationServer up and running.

Q: Something that isn’t clear for me when I looked at the site: TeamForge seems to be available for download, and there is no need for internet cloud storage, is it so? And if so, which is its license either for personal/open source projects, and for professionals?
A:  Internet Cloud storage is optional for TeamForge, and TeamForge can work with having everything installed in your environment, or hosted by CollabNet. We offer TeamForge free for up to 10 users, and this is a fully functional version of TeamForge. For open source projects, we can work directly with you on setting something up for your project.

Q: Can TeamForge integrate with teamcity? Of course, tc can connect to git or svn, but I wonder if tc can be used instead of jenkins/hudson inside the tf panel.
A: Yes, and we actually have a few customers that integrate with TeamCity already and it’s a great combined solution showing how Continuous Delivery can be done with TeamForge.

Q: How does TF enforce a Git Master repository?  It seems like commits could be happening in developer clone repos without any way to prevent this…
A: Any time you do a Git push, such as just “git push”, that’s going to push to your master TeamForge repository.  So if you have it synced up through Gerrit that’s where it’s going to go.  If you do a push to a branch that’s hosted in Gerrit,will push to that Gerrit branch.  Then within Gerrit you can fetch that for code review or you can get that branch directly from Gerrit and then once it’s approved you can push it back to the master which is inside of TeamForge.  So the repository hosted by TeamForge is used as the master repository.

Q: Does 6.2 bring any new dashboarding capabilities around TeamForge license capacity / utilization?
A: No, it does not.

Q: Is the  Jenkins/Hudson integration dependent on LabManagement or can we use inelastic/static provisioning?
A: Absolutely.  Lab Management is only value add to get elastic provisioning.  You don’t need to use Lab Management to use Hudson and Jenkins plug-in at all.

Q: How would users request access to a project through gerrit or reviewboard? Are the repos publicly viewable?
A: Users would have to talk to their project admin to give them access on a per project basis.  For instance, if you’re in one project and you don’t have access to either of those you would a have to ask your project admin if you don’t have project admin access to get those permissions to access ReviewBoard and Gerrit.  Once you access that then you’ll be able to see Gerrit in ReviewBoard within that project context. Now another key thing on this is if you have multiple projects you can have a hybrid solution – You can have access to ReviewBoard in one project, but not the other so you’d only be able to see ReviewBoard information for one project and not the other and the same is true for Gerrit as well.  So it allows you to only share information across those tools for projects that make sense for those developers.

Q: Any plans to add code review integration for Code Collaborator – similar to what’s been done for Review Board?
A: No, not at the moment.  However, if there’s more information that you want to send to me directly about Code Collaborator let me know and we can look at it.

Q: Where can I find the definitions of tables/views in the operational datastore and datamart?
A: These are available directly in our help docs

Q: Any tie-ins anticipated with Jdeveloper?
A: No, not at the moment.  If you’re thinking about it from a IDE integration right now we support Visual Studio and Eclipse for IDE; however, if you’re looking at JDeveloper the best way is to get it in via JDevelopers web-page plugin, and viewing TeamForge’s web UI directly in the IDE.

Q: Any plans to add Sonar?
A: Yes, that’s on our list of integrations that we want to eventually support through CollabNet Connect, but we haven’t targeted a specific release to offer this yet.

Q: Is Agile stuff available natively or do you have to install it?
A: it’s available natively

Q: If you have TeamForge 6.1.1 for Windows, will you make available an upgrade install?
A: Yes.  You’ll be able to upgrade from 6.1.1 to 6.2 on Windows.  This is something new we added and – and 6.1.1 was basically a migration option for – for 6.1.1 to further future versions of TeamForge. Stay tuned on the availability of TeamForge 6.2 on windows.

Q: Can you apply TeamForge for creating and reviewing documents the same as you would for Source Code stuff?
A: Yes, we have our own document management tool that’s inside of TeamForge and it has its own review tool within it.  Essentially, you can put something up in the document structure, an interface similar to Windows Explorer.  When you put that document in the document space you can change the status to either draft, and then you can also add a review to it and you can assign users within your TeamForge project to review that document.  The difference is is you’re not getting the inline annotation that you would get with code review, but you will be able to get it and see who’s reviewed it, who’s not, and  what your status is.

Q: Does TF 6.2 support ingest and parsing of externally generated requirements?
A: In general, we allow for connecting to third party tools directly through CollabNet Connect, but if you have a specific tool that you have in mind, let us know and we can investigate further.

Q: When will 6.2 be available on Forge.mil? [Should Remove this question
A:N/A – This Q should be removed

Q: How Git support in TeamForge 6.2 compares to GitHub?
A: The big difference is GitHub is really meant for hosting your Git repository.  TeamForge is a full application life cycle management tool so you get anything from your planning phase which is done in the TeamForge tracker to the coding phase which is done in combination of your SCM tool and the tracker to reviewing, which  could be part of your code review tools such as Gerrit and Git and Code Review.  So really what you’re thinking about is a lot more wider selection of tools. The other part is TeamForge allows for a master repository centrally located that can be gated by Gerrit.  So now you have a gating area using Gerrit to actually allow for being able to push to just Gerrit and then a master repository as the main Git – Gerrit repository inside of TeamForge.  To me, the big difference is you’re looking at a much wider solution than what GitHub supports.  And also we’re a lot more flexible.  So if you want to actually have it hosted in your own private environment we – we support that.  If you want to have a private cloud support or a public cloud support.  So the deployment options is a lot more flexible than what GitHub has as well.

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New Release: TeamForge 6.2- Integration, Visibility, and Reporting

Posted by Lothar Schubert on June 25, 2012

It’s exciting times for CollabNet customers. Today, CollabNet announced the release of TeamForge 6.2, with a heavy emphasis on integration, visibility and reporting.  Most notably also, this latest platform release enables leading Enterprise Git  and ‘Hybrid SCM’ (Git & Subversion) management, on-premises and in the cloud. With TeamForge 6.2, CollabNet also delivers on its strategy for Enterprise Cloud Development, which itself was announced just 8 weeks ago. Also today, CollabNet announced a new partnership with Black Duck®, embedding its Code Sight™ offering deep into the TeamForge platform for enterprise code search, across Git and Subversion repositories.

Learn all about TeamForge and see the webinars

In a nutshell, TeamForge 6.2 delivers on four key themes, as illustrated in the graphic below.

1. Enterprise-grade Git and Subversion Management
You now can manage Git and Subversion with one combined platform. TeamForge lets you securely create, configure and monitor code repositories, and govern enterprise development and release processes. Also, in addition to Git, TeamForge embeds popular tools Gerrit and GitWeb.
Learn more

2. Code Quality, Re-Use and Governance
By embedding Gerrit, ReviewBoard and Black Duck® Code Sight™, TeamForge provides a rich set of capabilities to improve developer productivity, with code reviews and automated search and discovery. Learn more

3. Planning, Measurement and Reporting
You get enhanced capabilities for Agile planning, with graphical desktop task boards and multi-unit planning. Also, a greatly expanded datamart provides information across site activity, code commits and tracker events. Dashboards are available out of the box, and with CollabNet Labs. Learn more about reporting and planning

4. Orchestration Across Tools and Clouds
CollabNet Connect now supports REST based applications, in addition to SOAP. You can deeply embed your preferred tools, or select any of the tools that CollabNet pre-integrated for you, including Jenkins / Hudson, JIRA, Gerrit, Code Sight and ReviewBoard. Learn more

We hope you’ll be as excited as we are, about that latest TeamForge release. The product will be available soon in our download section.

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TeamForge 6.2 incorporates new tools and functionalities for hybrid development processes and environments.

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CollabNet: 1 of only 7 companies out of 268 ever named 10 straight years to SD Times Top 100

Posted by Bill Portelli on June 8, 2012

In a recent blog post in which CollabNet had announced our positioning around Enterprise Cloud Development, I made the comment that for the last “12 years CollabNet has been blessed to work with some of the brightest people and organizations on the planet. Together, as individuals, companies, institutions and members of the community at large, we have worked collectively to advance the art of building and deploying software that touches every facet of our daily life.”

It’s a vision and a passion we take seriously at CollabNet. It provides us with a purpose and a focus which provides an energy that is both invigorating to our team as well as adds value to our partner and client ecosystem. So it was extremely rewarding to see last week that SD Times announced CollabNet has been named to the SD Times 100 under the ALM and SCM category. A key piece of news is that we were named as a “multi-all-star” Awards winner for the 10th straight year which is basically every year SD Times has had this award.

This makes us one of 7 companies out of 268 ever named that has won this Award every year since its inception. It’s a consistent track record of leadership and innovation of which everyone in our company can all be proud. And it really is the kind of validation that is nice to get once in a while from an impartial industry source. It validates why we come to work every day to continue our pursuit of advancing the state of the art in the software industry. Congrats to the CollabNet team – and thanks to our partners and clients who continue to support us and work with us towards this vision.

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TeamForge 6.1.1 Now on Windows

Posted by bzeichick on May 30, 2012

Good news – the latest TeamForge release now is available on the Windows platform. Effective immediately, you can download TeamForge 6.1.1 directly from our website.

TeamForge 6.1.1 ships with a brand-new, wizard-driven installer. You have the options to install TeamForge from scratch, or to upgrade from earlier TeamForge releases. You also have the option to migrate your Subversion Edge instance to TeamForge.

Award-winning ALM with TeamForge 6.1.1

TeamForge 6.1.1 was initially released for Linux and VMware platforms, back in December 2011. This updated platform has been very popular since, and won multiple industry awards. For example, TeamForge emerged as clear winner amongst ALM platforms in a recent analyst evaluation. Amongst other enhancements, TeamForge 6.1.1 now provides:

  • Subversion replication, for maximum WAN performance
  • Flexible tracker validations and workflows
  • Integration with Atlassian JIRA, and other 3rd party tools
  • Scalable role and permissions management model
  • … and much more (read the datasheet)

Windows 2003, Windows 2008, and more

Since TeamForge is a server application, we focused on the Windows server operating systems, when validating TeamForge. XP, Vista, and 7 should only be used for evaluation. We encourage you to follow the sizing guidelines (for 32bit or 64bit), and to start with a ‘clean system’ (dedicated box is the  best).

Upgrade from  Subversion Edge

For users of Subversion Edge, we have a special surprise.  Since the vast majority of “Edge’s” are deployed on Windows, with that latest release of TeamForge we made the upgrade from Subversion especially easy. The wizard will automatically detect existing Subversion installations, and incorporate into the TeamForge installation. Compare TeamForge to Subversion Edge now. If you ever considered upgrading from Subversion Edge to TeamForge, now may be the right time.

Free for 10 Users

As in the past, TeamForge is available for up to 10 users for free. Simply download TeamForge and get started, then apply for your license key (check licensing for terms & conditions).

Online and Commercial Support Options

Having technical questions? Check out our online support forum. Or contact us, to learn about the multiple affordable commercial support options available to you.

We hope you’ll be as excited as we are, about TeamForge 6.1.1 on Windows!

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A new Windows installer wizard walks you through the installation process.

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Subversion Edge will be discovered automatically, or installed if you don’t have it yet.

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After walking through the installer, you’re ready to start with TeamForge 6.1.1.

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DevOps, the Agile Cadence and Modern Code Languages…an Opportunity for IT Optimization?

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