A Quick Look at Subversion Hosting
August 15th, 2007 • General
Every single Subversion hosting company prides itself with having a bug tracker and an SVN browser. I wish there was just one host that would provide me with proper analytical tools, ala Ohloh, but privately.
However, here’s a quick sweep of the coolest-looking:
- Unfuddle looks cute. But the center around project management as opposed to version control.
- Springloops has a clean design, and it’s comfortable to work with. They have a deployment feature that others don’t.
- VersionShelf can post to Twitter and Campfire. Sadly, no SVN hooks.
- Project Locker wants to be cool. Integrates a document management system and a wiki.
- DevGuard has a cheap plan. 100MB, Trac and WebSVN for $8/month. They also offer discounts.
- hosted-projects beats DevGaurd. For $7/month you get 100MB, Trac and ACLs.
- CVSDude is by far the oldest and biggest. Fairly trimmed hosting though with SVN/CVS and Trac. I’ve tried the interface too, and it’s complicated.
- There’s a comparison chart but it only mentions the basics.
The version control hosting scene looks terrible. I can’t pick my own VCS, I can’t integrate it my own bug tracker, I’m mostly locked with no import/export capabilities, and all for some reason, these companies neglect version control and want to manage my projects.
Any ideas?
Thanks for taking a look at us at ProjectLocker. Both our Lite and Enterprise plans offer control over who gets commit e-mails, as well as access to Subversion permissions through the Web Interface and the ability to configure Trac settings normally only accessible via trac-admin. The Lite plan is just Subversion and Trac, the Enterprise plan optionally allows you to buy a standalone Wiki and Document Management, and provides some other features, like integrated access to our remote build tool, some analytics reports, and more.
You mention that many companies are neglecting version control. Assuming Subversion was your desired version control system, what features would you like to see that you’re not seeing? We’re always interested in finding out what our customers and potential customers need that isn’t being provided.