Managing customizations to an evolving third-party product

May 11th, 2011

Your Product

Like many projects these days, there’s no need to build completely from scratch. Off-the-shelf Open Source applications like WordPress, have changed the landscape. Another situation we encountered with a client once was a code generation platform for PHP. These are fundamentally different things but the way they are managed via version control workflow are the same if you intend to make modifications to them.

Don’t get stuck with an unparseable gitosis.conf

April 11th, 2011

Getting started with gitosis

So you’ve evaluated the SaaS landscape the Web has to offer and decided to go it alone and host public repositories behind your corporate firewall. You’ve also decided you want to build the service using free components from the Open Source community if possible. Enter gitosis.