Want Free Subversion, Trac, Mylyn, and More? Of course you do.

Posted At : April 22, 2008 9:52 AM | Posted By : Brian Kotek
Related Categories: Computers,Development,Change Management

If the idea of 500 Mb of free Subversion, Trac (with XML-RPC access for things like Mylyn), Wiki, and a whole lot more sounds like a good thing to you, check out Assembla.com. I signed up last night and am really quite floored.

This thing has virtually everything one could want in a project management, source code, ticket tracking, and team collaboration setup. And again, it's free for up to 500 Mb of stuff. And after that it is a paltry $12.50 per month for 5 Gb of storage, plus a few extras like https access.

I've been hosting my own SVN locally but have increasingly been thinking about moving it to an external service so that I can get to it from anywhere. This seals the deal. So far, Assembla has been very impressive, and if it keeps up, I'll be springing for the $12 commercial account and be done with it.

Have a look if you have been thinking about jumping on the Subversion or Trac bandwagon but don't have the time or inclination to set up your own server. And if anyone else has been using Assembla, please share! Thanks.

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Oh my, if I only knew about this 1 week sooner I would have spared few hours to setup something that doesn't even have the half of those features.

Thank you Brian for sharing this, this is awesome.

# Posted By João Fernandes | 4/22/08 10:47 AM

Interesting.

I wonder how it compares (feature-wise) to something like http://unfuddle.com/

# Posted By Jeff Coughlin | 4/22/08 12:13 PM

Brian,

Another good one is http://www.DevjaVu.com, which is what I use. They have a free version too, and its been great so far.

# Posted By Jeff Gladnick | 4/22/08 1:13 PM

Despite what everyone was saying to use CVSDude and DreamHost when I was shopping for SVN about a month ago, I was on Snook's blog and comment mentioned Assembla. I decided to go with them to the relatively large space allocation and so many features.

# Posted By Kyle Hayes | 4/22/08 2:42 PM

I've been using http://svnrepository.com/ for a couple of years now. You may find them competitive.
Although their web site is not as flashy as Assembla, they offer rock-solid SVN/Git and TRAC hosting. You can edit your own trac.ini file, so Mylyn connectivity is no problem.
Being a sole developer, the last thing I want is to maintain a SVN server. I also consider my off-site SVN service crucial to my disaster recovery plan.

# Posted By Terry Schmitt | 4/22/08 5:18 PM

I've been using Assembla for almost one year and I must say I'm very pleased.
It's fast and reliable.
The only less good aspect is the integration between the Assembla portal and the Trac. Assembla itself has a milestone and bug report but it dosen't integrates easly with Trac, although they are working on it.

It a 5 star service for 0 bucks. I recommend it fully.

# Posted By Bruno 'Shine' Figueiredo | 4/23/08 11:08 AM

@Bruno - A non-negotiable part of my search for a SVN and Trac system was that it allow XML-RPC access so that I can use Mylyn. So for me, I don't care at all how the portal shows Trac-related stuff since I'll never look at it there. I interact with Trac through Mylyn almost exclusively. You might have a peek at Mylyn since it causes such a shift in the way you think about dealing with tasks and tickets, as all of this is built directly into the IDE instead of having to deal with some external Trac site.

# Posted By Brian Kotek | 4/23/08 11:50 AM

I went through a long PM evaluation a while ago and could not find a better solution than Assembla. You can check out my post and screenshots of their service at http://blog.tech-cats.com/2008/01/kick-butt-projec....

We are now paying the $13/month which also includes the ability to backup your workspace to Amazon S3. The whole service is pretty nice.

# Posted By Boyan Kostadinov | 4/23/08 12:05 PM

I've been using Assembla (mostly just for SVN) for a few months now and have been very pleased. I also sprung for the commercial account so my files would be automatically backed up to S3.

# Posted By Bob Silverberg | 4/23/08 9:53 PM

Here is another good one: http://www.codespaces.com/

# Posted By Gabriel Ciuloaica | 4/24/08 2:37 AM

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