Polarion Software Weblog

Big news - we’ve just released Polarion^® ALM for Subversion™ 3.0, a much anticipated advance that we hope shows how serious we are about driving forward the art and science of ALM.

Polarion ALM for Subversion 3.0 remains the only single-tool ALM solution based entirely on industry standards and open source. It applies the collaboration and management power of Subversion to the entire process of application lifecycle management, with productivity-boosting features like user-adjustable interfaces that let you "switch hats”" to see different views of a project in different work contexts. The new centralized Live Quality dashboards give you real-time, actual QA information, undistorted by guesses and wishful thinking. In fact, from the low cost of ownership to the elimination of so-called "ALM suites" cobbled together from point solutions, Polarion ALM for Subversion 3.0 really has no competition.

Get Started for FREE

To help you experience for yourself just how revolutionary the new Polarion ALM 3.0 is, the fully-functional Polarion ALM Team™ product is free through the end of this year.

• Product Info: http://www.polarion.com/products/alm/team.php
• Download here: http://www.polarion.com/downloads/alm.php
• Sign up for your free license: www.polarion.com/products/alm/team_order.php.

In addition to the Team product, there’s Polarion ALM Enterprise™ for Subversion, which adds Requirements Management, Project Management, maturity model (CMMI) and agile process (XP) compliance support, Flexible Workflow Engine - among other features. And finally there’s Polarion ALM Multi-Site™, which adds repository replication and syncing over WAN for large, multi-regional or even global organizations.

Here are some additional links you’ll find useful for digging a bit deeper:

• Release Details: For more detail on new features and the new 3.0 product lineup, see the article at http://www.polarion.com/products/alm/release30.php.
• Products Overview: A quick overview of all ALM products is available at links starting from http://www.polarion.com/products/alm/index.php
• Download: Download the Polarion ALM Platform and get 30-day evaluation license with Enterprise features at http://www.polarion.com/downloads/alm.php

Along with the release of Polarion ALM 3.0 you’ll notice we have give the Polarion Software website a facelift. It’s new, it’s different, but is it better? Let us know what you think!

The Polarion Community is still pretty much the same, including the demo server. Because of some custom functionality there we don’t yet have it updated to Polarion 3.0… but we will soon.

We are pleased to announce Polarion SVN Solutions for Subversion™ – a handy set of free and open source tools for Subversion that will help you apply the power of Subversion to your projects, including data importers, Eclipse plug-ins and even free, open-source training materials.

These tools are great for distributed and multi-site development groups, such as most open-source projects of any size, because they let you all work together as a unified team, even if you’re geographically distant.

All the Polarion SVN tools are free and, in addition we’ve made some of them open source. Here are links you can use to get more detailed information on Polarion SVN Solutions for Subversion:

• Overview: http://www.polarion.com/products/svn/
• Polarion^® FastTrack for Subversion: www.polarion.com/products/svn/fasttrack.php
• SVN Express by Polarion^®: www.polarion.com/products/svn/svn_express.php
• Importer for SVN: http://www.polarion.org/index.php?page=overview&project=svnimporter

And the open-source tools:

• Subversive Eclipse Client for Subversion: http://www.polarion.org/index.php?page=overview&project=subversive
• SubTrain Open Source Subversion Training Curriculum: http://polarion.org/index.php?page=overview&project=subtrain

A new version of FastTrack, the free tracker plugin for Eclipse is now available. The update is directed at those who are currently using Eclipse 3.1.

This release is mainly to provide compatibility with a new update release of Subversive, a free Subversion client for Eclipse, which is distributed together with, and used by FastTrack.

FastTrack 1.0.5 (which includes Subversive 1.0.5) may be downloaded here:
http://powerversion.com/downloads/fasttrack/1.0.5/

Important note:
Subversive 1.0.5 is the last release in the 1.0.x stream, which is frozen from that version. We will continue development on the 1.1.x stream, which will be migrated to the eclipse.org site, and also will work on the new version targeted at the upcoming Eclipse 3.3.

You can get Subversive 1.0.5 alone at the following URLs:

Update site:
http://www.polarion.org/projects/subversive/download/update-site/

Archived Update Site and Source Code downloads:
http://www.polarion.org/index.php?page=download&project=subversive

We have released new platform-specific Linux installers for Polarion for Subversion v. 2.6.5. Automated interactive installers are now available for:

• Red Hat/Fedora Core
• Debian
• SuSE

(We had previously released an interactive installer for Windows^®, and a generic Linux installation archive for manual Linux installations.)

The new installers are suitable for new installations, or for upgrading from version 2.6.0 to version 2.6.5.

You can download any of the available installers/archives at http://www.polarion.com/downloads.php#sub. Click the link Login & Download and user your polarion.com account credentials (or register for a new account). All downloaders automatically receive an evaluation license by e-mail.

If you have questions regarding the new installers please e-mail
support@polarion.com

We are pleased and excited to offer the industry’s first open source training materials for Subversion through the new SubTrain project on the Polarion Community website.

If your organization is thinking about rolling out Subversion (or if it has recently done so), or if you are a professional trainer, now you don’t have to reinvent the wheel when it comes to training users on Subversion. The free, open-source SubTrain course provides a set of PowerPoint slides, plus exercises, “cheat sheets” and more which you are free to reuse and customize. You can also contribute additional materials and or improvements to the existing materials.

We think the open source concept applied to training materials is an exciting new idea and we hope that you will find it beneficial. So hop on over the the Polarion Community and check out SubTrain!

More info at polarion.com…