tl;dr: New Evolvis release, scmgit plugin, bidirectional merge with FusionForge 5.1; committing tarent features back to Mediawiki and Mailman packaging in Debian; Fairtrade Software

tarent GmbH now offers both git and Subversion as Source Code Management systems in their Evolvis platform.

The scmsvn plugin of EvolvisForge was amended with the scmgit plugin, backported from a newer FusionForge release, while work to upgrade the main forge code to the soon-to-be-released FusionForge is ongoing in parallel. Of course, most features, such as commit mails (in git, they’re really sent out after a “git push” from the developer), are already available for both; others will follow after the code base upgrade for simplicity. Already, git repositories can be used for all regular tasks — although it’s currently not possible to have both git and svn repositories in a project.

During the migration (as well as regular development), many features of Evolvis will show up in regular FusionForge to benefit the broad community of Forge users, courtesy of the Open Source policy of tarent GmbH, who has contracted the FusionForge project leader to improve both projects, following the mantra of “Fairtrade Software”.

Among other changes, the SOAP WSDL has been corrected and is now versioned, and other areas (especially the Tasks and Tracker) have been improved.

There’s a release announcement of the new version at Evolvis, in case you want to know the details.

Finally, an Evolvis developer has set foot not only in the Mediawiki packaging team at Debian but also the Mailman packaging team. Expect many, if not all, improvements to show up there within some time.

Did you know that Hudson is now called Jenkins? This is a change in name only, due to trademark concerns, but rest assured the Evolvis platform will continue to offer Continuous Integration in a usable fashion, no matter the technology behind (there was Continuum, now Hudson, soon Jenkins).

In our evergoing quest to improve the Evolvis platform, we wish you a pleasant user and developer experience!
//The Evolvis team