Re: Subversion & iSeries

Douglas wrote:

I have TurnOver on the iSeries and a couple of .Net developers. I would
like to implement change management for them through Subversion,
TurnOverSVN, and the ported client so that I can maintain a single
database for my change management. I was hoping to find someone that
had done that so I could get some ideas on how it went for them.

We have no SCM here at all. I'd call the TurnOver folks for the scoop on how their product integrates System i and 'outside' code. My SVN repository only has RPG, CL and DDS in it, but they're stored as stream files (as you'd expect.)

I would be interested in finding out how far you took that "proof of
concept"?

My main goal was to work with WDSC's iSeries Projects, not just read about it. I have access to a System i, so setting up the Subversion repository (and associated web server) was a no-brainer for me. I'm not sure how useful my experience is, because without a formal SCM we're still stepping on each other's toes (between the SVN users and the PDM users.)

I used iSeries Projects along with SVN for about two months, for the full duration of a project. I didn't find anything to complain about when it comes to SVN or the repository. I didn't have to restore the repository from a backup, so I'm not sure how that would work.

Ultimately, I decided that iSeries Projects was mismatched enough with my processes that I probably won't be using it in the future. Not that there's anything wrong with iSeries Projects; it's just not really suitable as a poor man's change management system. It probably works fine as a way to perform offline editing; I just don't have a need for that, and tried to twist it to do something it was not intended to do.
--buck