"Application development organizations that adopt separate tools for standalone SCM and change management usually end up paying significantly less than those that adopt unified SCCM solutions."
-- May 29, 2007 report, The Forrester Wave: Software Change and Configuration Management, Q2 2007.
Scmbug is free software released under the GPL license. It facilitates migration from prohibitively expensive unified SCCM commercial systems to a lower cost of ownership by fully supporting the most popular free SCM systems and issue-trackers. It frees the ties to a particular vendor and puts the choice of SCM and issue-tracking systems in the users hands. Its key features are:
- Can glue any source code version control system, such as Subversion, CVS/CVSNT with any bug-tracking system, such as Bugzilla, Mantis, Request Tracker, Test Director. Commit comments supplied to the SCM system are kept in-sync with the issue-tracker.
- Enforces change management requirements through a flexible, configurable array of integration policies that can match multiple development models.
- Automates generation of release documents that accurately report the changes shipped in a new version of a product.
- Simplifies feature-merging by automating precise application of changesets in multiple branches.
Scmbug is general enough to be deployed in just about any industry there is. It is used by Fortune 500 companies, embedded system manufacturers, application development powerhouses, financial institutions, aerospace system engineers, nanotechnology vendors, energy distributors, telecommunications carriers, biotechnology pioneers, healthcare services, government agencies and educational institutions worldwide.