FogBugz On Demand + online source control at low/no cost?

I have a project in the free hosted FogBugz On Demand (FOD) product right now. This is great for feature/issue tracking. But I've been working from a codebase that is solely on my development machine. I'd like to collaborate with another guy who is thousands of miles from me. So we need a source control solution (SCM)!

I use Visual Studio (2005, but can upgrade to later versions as needed).

I am aware that FogBugz can integrate with a number of source control systems.

So now the question is: which online SCM products can integrate well with FOD and VS? And which ones do so well at low or no cost, for a small code repository. And where might I find a proven recipe for putting this together.

I'm open to other solutions which provide the same functionality. Please don't suggest Trac - I regard it highly, but I want the features of FOB (especially the evidence based scheduling) in my issue tracking solution. So really, I need to combine FOB + VS + some online SCM product into a low or no cost solution for two coders to collaborate on.

I'm currently working with another developer and I have an SVN server set up at home. I've got it hooked up to WebSVN so that we can access it through port 80 and all works like a charm. We've got it hooked into FogBugz on Demand.

You should be able to use a service like DynDNS (or similar) to keep them linked if you don't have a static IP address. I've got a static IP which alleviates this need, but it's free and allows access to my SVN repo from the office or to the other developer I'm working with.

I can't speak for online services though... I haven't used any of them. I know this isn't strictly the answer you're looking for, but thought I'd throw it out there because of the fact that it would be free.

I use DreamHost for my SVN hosting (and web hosting and ROR test server). It comes out at less than 10 a month. I'm not sure how well it plays with FOD though.

RichH 2009-11-24 21:29:01

Right, I briefly looked at BeanStalk and Unfuddle, based on answers to similar questions here on SO. They are within the range of affordability. I have not yet located any clear concise recipes for the FOD+Beanstalk or FOD+Unfuddle or FOD+$OtherOnlineSCM integration, though.

quux 2009-11-24 21:51:47

quux 2009-11-24 21:42:19

I switched my answer to Kiln. Today they invited me in. It's definitely better than Bitbucket, although Bitbucket is pretty darn good (the proprietor helped me personally with an issue, and I wasn't even a paying customer).

quux 2009-11-30 19:05:13

Yeah, I considered doing something like this, but on an hosted VM or VPS. I hope not to have to go to those lengths, though. Thanks for the answer.

quux 2009-11-24 21:48:23

Ah - but if I do have to do it this way - do you have any links to full recipe for implementing it?

quux 2009-11-24 21:49:30

I can probably help you through it if you need it - look up my email address on my profile and we can discuss.

BenAlabaster 2009-11-24 21:54:10

It took me hours of trawling through sparse badly written answers on various forums to get SVN/WebSVN working together nicely - I never came across a full recipe for it getting it set up on Windows.

BenAlabaster 2009-11-24 21:56:38

Thanks for the extended replies. Yup, exactly what I hope NOT to have to replicate. If I end up going this way and we do any emails, I'll definitely try to make a nice recipe out of the results and make it public, linked from here. But At the moment I have my hopes focused on that Kiln beta!

quux 2009-11-24 21:58:34

@quux: I had my hopes out for the Kiln beta too - but it was taking too long so I gave up and pounded my head with rocks to get SVN/WebSVN/FogBugz all hooked up together. Maybe I'll set up a blog post this weekend covering the recipe I used to get it all up and running - if my other duties don't get in the way.

BenAlabaster 2009-11-24 22:07:07

@quux: I notice your added comment about Trac - I *was* using that, but that was an unimaginable pain in the ass to get set up and hooked up to SVN. It probably took me a day or two in all to actually get it working nicely. Then I saw FOD at DevDays and switched over immediately. Goodbye Trac and good riddance.

BenAlabaster 2009-11-24 22:11:57

@benAlabaster - I'm surprised to hear of your difficulties with Trac and SVN integration. I've done it several times, from scratch. Have used and written some of the recipes @ the Trac project itself - though these were new setups (maybe you were trying to integrate existing SVN setups?). It's not Trac setup I need to avoid; it's the lack of FOD features, really. We're heading way offtopic here, but I did want to respond because the response may illuminate other answerers!

quux 2009-11-24 22:49:47

And they have a free plan for <150MB of data. Perfect.Kiln looks nice, but it won't be the answer until it's out of beta and people can sign up for immediate accounts. Too bad!

quux 2009-11-26 09:06:08

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