[thelist] Collaborative Environment Suggestions

[David Williamson]

Burhan

phpCollab (http://www.phpcollab.com/website/index.php) springs to mind.


Dave

> On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 06:49  PM, Burhan Khalid wrote:
>
> > Hello All :
> >
> > Came across a unique situation, and as always, I would like to
> > consult the list for opinions.  I have been retained as a
> > developer/system admin for a design house, however, they don't have
> > any sort of version control/collaborative development envrionment in
> > place.  It is getting to be a problem since almost all of the
> > developers are telecommuting, and we are having problems with people
> > updating files, and then not being up with the most recent version of
> > a file.
> >
> > So, I am looking for some sort of version control system.  The
> > platform is RH 7.2 shared server, and I do have root access via SSH
> > (if that's a factor).  Any suggestions? Places where I should look?
> > The files that we will be editing will be web based (HTML & PHP
> > mainly).
> >
> > What I am trying to avoid are situations where the HTML and PHP files
> > (mostly HTML) are choked full with comment tags. Besides the bloat, it
> > doesn't look very nice when someone does a view source.  I would like
> > a system that allows people to check out files, and have a separate
> > file/place to have a log for the changes. If a file is checked out --
> > then it should be locked so that other people may not modify it.