vcs-util is a utility aimed at providing a more comfortable interface to subversion, where its possible to checkout from a common location by specifying just the repository name. It features recursive (including externals) tagging and branching etc.
A flatfile-based metadata repository and integration with common build tools (make, ant, others). A code generation framework is included and is useful to conditionally generate code objects based on the deployment environment. Metadata+deploy = :)
The LAMPAS project is a combination of common Open Source tools that provides a unified system from where administrators, developers and other parties can manage a large application cluster. The underlying platform is LAMP based.