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Integrating Social Features of SP2010 with Source Control

 
 20 Oct 2009 @ 7:26 PM 

P1000151 There were two mind-bogglingly cool features that stood out for me in @venkyv’s great talk today at the SharePoint 2009 conference, on the social networking & MySite features of SharePoint 2010. 

One of those is this:  An experimental feature of SharePoint 2010 is integrating in data from your source control repository into MySite.  Meaning, instead of just “friending” other employees, one could be a “friend” of source files or projects, so that if files change in those projects, that you can be notified, can discuss them, etc.

I don’t know about you, but SVN has saved my butt more times than I can count.  However, unfortunately, many of those “save my butt” moments has happened way after the fact – where a silly change was published that broke everything, or where someone mistakenly commits a change that breaks something, and then the files are then published a month later and everyone looks around in bewilderment as “I haven’t touched the site in months!!”. 

Well, if you were to integrate social alerts & discussion into your SVN or other version control system, you could then nip these problems in the bud – big time.  One could get an instant alert when a change is made to a project you’re working on, and then could discuss this with the person if there was inadequate information in their commit log.

Or, how about taking the concept MUCH bigger, and using SharePoint for external sites, and using it to manage major open-source projects with an open-access SVN repo.  Brilliant!

In talking with @venkyv after the talk, he said that the feature is still in initial work & testing, but by all means – it has my vote, and I hope it makes it into the RTM version of SharePoint 2010! 

 

* Whoa – SP2010 can be used as a drop-in replacement for social media measurement and handling using tag-based social bookmarking combined with workflow

Posted By: @WebworldTech
Last Edit: 20 Oct 2009 @ 07:26 PM

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