Beanstalk like Functionality

Question

I'm finally getting my team to embrace source code management now that we're working on projects where more than one dev is touching the same codebase, and I setup a free/trial account on Beanstalk for hosted Subversion so people could get a taste of how it works.

That said, we've discussed a somewhat ambitious plan to put a lot of needed/wanted functionality into a single server we can run ourselves, and while I think that's great, we're still working without SCM as those plans slowly form.

In the interim, I'd like to setup a temporary SVN server, but was wondering if there are any F/OSS packages that we could setup that would provide Beanstalk like functionality (i.e. the nice web interface/management setup). I'm not overly concerned with the core-language of the package unless I'd need to hack on the code for the system itself, in which case I'm reasonably comfortable with PHP, Perl, and .NET, though I could probably pickup (an)other language(s) as needed. That said, I'd like to steer clear of .NET or any other technology that would necessitate a Windows license.

Answer 1

There are probably a lot of people on Stack Overflow who know lots about Subversion, but have never heard of Beanstalk and therefore can't help you. Specifically what web front-end functionality are you looking for?

My team only ever needs to browse our SVN repositories via a web browser (and compare revisions) and for that we use WebSVN. It's simple and not especially fully-featured, but it does the job for us. You can't use WebSVN to create repositories, but since that's a very simple job, and one that is done relatively infrequently, that's probably not an issue, is it?

Answer 2

Why do you want to stay out of beanstalk? For me it is working very decently