Thursday, February 28, 2008

If you're comfortable with the contents of your SVN repositories sitting in a cloud outside your corporate firewall, etc. I have found a really decent SVN service thats free and offers quite a lot. Yes, Google Code is cool, but it doesn't seem to offer the same kind of feature plans. Which service is this? Assembla.



FREE ACCOUNT:

• Unlimited team size
• Public or Private (invited members only)
• Subversion - the standard in SCM
• Trac - development tickets and timeline
• Integrated Ticket tool
• Wiki
• Milestones, Tasks, and Discussions
• Alerts: Real-time email, batch email, or RSS
• File attachments
• Chat
• "Stand-up" or "Scrum" team member reports
• Image Annotation
• Time tracking and reporting

You can get more if you pay. Check out the tour to see all the stuff. The UI overall is kinda lame compared to some other UIs I've seen for online SVN (its not very Web 2.0), but the UI is acceptable given all the features you get for free, and you get 500MB space for free... thats a generous size when your projects contain AS3 and perhaps some MXML, JavaScript, etc. Even if you check in your resulting binaries, that's still a decent amount of storage.



That being said, I think I still prefer the simplicity of purpose of Beanstalk, and the UI for it is superior. You won't get as much storage, and you can only create a single repository for free of 15MB. Thats pretty small. You can get 250MB for $15/mo., 1GB for $25/mo., and 3GB for $50/mo. However, if you're going to need that much space, I think that you would probably suck it up and opt to just install SVN on a box on your network or something.

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