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Is there a hosted SVN provider that offers discussion tools on a par with GitHub?

We use SVN at work (i.e. this is not an open source project) and our code works in an offshore team. I would like to be able to better communicate with them, and the comment system provided by GitHub would be ideal.

With the GitHub system, I can start a discussion of any line of code in commit .

So my question is: does anyone know an SVN hosted provider that has a similar tool?

To be clear, I am looking specifically for discussion tools that make it convenient to discuss code. The GitHub tool allows you to start a discussion of a line of code in the source browser.

I'm not looking for a formal peer review tool, but rather a discussion tool designed to facilitate talking about code in a commit.

We currently use Assembla, and they do not offer this kind of functionality in the Trac repository browser or in their browser for home users.

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Any hosting that provides access to Python. You can use Trac with a discussion plugin

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It will not be hosted, but you can customize the open source version of the Google Code Viewer previously noted by @SilentGhost called Rietveld:
http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/

As with Google AppEngine. You could post it yourself using the AppEngine SDK and Apache mod_proxy, although I would not recommend this if the site should be publicly available, as the SDK clearly states that it is not intended for production and as such security is easily considered.

As an alternative, Google also released a tool to convert AppEngine applications into pure Django applications, which you could host through your favorite runtime in python mode. Also, the conversion of the demo application that is included is actually Rietveld, so they already care about that for you. See here for more information:
http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/pure_django.html

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How about using a review tip ?
This is pretty easy to put the wrong place, you can easily restrict access through a password, and it can be associated with SVN.

I know that this is not a hosting service, but installing it in place is so simple that it should not be a show stopper.

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Google code provides the CodeReview function, which includes the possibility of phased commenting, as well as comments of entire commands.

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I think Beanstalk is the best option for hosted Subversion.

I think you should use git-svn and convert your subversion repository to Git and use github, but Beanstalk is by far the best in terms of features.

All the best

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I would recommend svnrepository.com . It installs trac to manage your project.

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While this is not a linear system, you can customize the discussion on the commit situation using cvsdude using hooks for Basecamp . This is a hosted solution, and you can also use Lighthouse or even FogBugz to work with it. Of course, this is probably more about fixing bugs than communicating with teams as such, but I think Basecamp integration might work for a common solution. Not perfect, but I like it, so I thought I would throw it away.

I don’t think there is something there right now that has line by line Github - perhaps this would be a good project to start with! In fact, cvsdude offers an API for its Enterprise service, so if you want to create your own main discussion system, you can do this from what I suspect (not looking too closely at it).

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I recommend you use Assembla . You can get the Subversion Repository http://www.assembla.com/catalog/12-Enhanced-Subversion-Repository-Package in just one click, and later you can add many additional tools if you need them:

Storage facilities

Tickets / Issues

  • Assembla agile Ticket and Issue tracker
  • Trac enhanced with command and alert management.

Cooperation

  • Assembly Wiki
  • Assembla Posts
  • Assembla Files
  • Assembla chat
  • Trac wiki

Time tracking

  • Project Time Report
  • Collapse Time Report
  • Burn chart
  • Time tracking

Control

  • Visible activity stream with email and RSS alerts
  • Scrum report
  • Project Templates
  • Company home pages and spaces
  • Portfolio Reports

Integration

  • REST API
  • Webhooks - write to any REST interface
  • Twitter
  • Eclipse mylyn
  • External SVN, Github
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You can check InDefero , it does not provide a linear overview of the code, but this is on the roadmap for September 2009 or earlier. Please note that I am an InDefero developer.

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