[GD-General] Re: asset & document management

[Enno R. <en...@de...>]

Garett Bass wrote:

>>Then I found Sharepont...
>

> Subversion and a Linux server sounds like a cheap alternative.  As soon as I
> get my Linux box up, I'll try it out.  I would install it on a Windows XP
> box, but I can't afford to install XP Service Pack 1.  Perhaps I too will
> someday be able to afford Windows servers :P

Subversion is okay for managing code and assets. CVS is still better for us, 
because we need cvs annotate (aka cvs blame), and subversion does not have 
that yet. But it looks like whenever subversion is good enough, migration 
from CVS will not be difficult.

But Sharepoint is supposed to solve another problem. CVS does a good job of 
keeping versions, but it's not a good tool for documentation management. In 
Sharepoint, I can orgnaize documents much better, I get a nice portal with 
search functionality that even our marketing folks can use, and I get 
features like the alerts - notifications when somebody changes a certain 
document that I've shown an interest in. Plus, I can file documents with 
meta-data, like keywords, production status, etc. that I can search or 
organize them by.

CVS or subverion could be a nice part of the backend for this. If I'd make 
my own, it would come out somewhere as a mix between a mySQL database to 
store the metadata, CVS to keep the versions, and some portal features like 
in phpBB.

Enno.