CMMi requires Software Configuration Management (SCM) to be implemented. Commercial multi platform SCM systems are expensive, charging a per seat license. As a result a number of organizations either expect their customers to provide a system or share licenses among developers (reducing effectiveness of the solution) or continue to use older (and cheaper) versions of the software. Open source and CMMI. As Indian software companies move up the value chain, a cost effective, modern and supported SCM solution will help in preserving their competitive advantage. Rrap Software offers open source SCM solutions, which are scalable, proven, do not cost on a per developer basis and are supported.

SCM Components

• Version control using subversion subversion has evolved over a number of years and used extensively by the open source community as a means of distributed software development. Support for advanced concepts such as branching and merging are inbuilt. Subversion also supports synchronization of multiple servers.
• Bug tracking using trac trac is a wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. trac allows creating links between bugs, tasks, changesets, files and wiki pages. trac has a very active plugin developer community.
• Project tracking using trac. Trac milestone and issue based project planning allows for dynamically managing the project. Trac timeline shows all project events in order, making getting an overview of the project and tracking progress very easy.

• Installation and migration for subversion. Migrate from a variety of existing version control systems, without loosing version history.
• Installation and configuration of trac. Including a variety of plugins and configuration for a number of projects from the same trac server.

While Papers
Achieving higher productivity using CMMI and open source tools. Part 1, 1.2MB.
Open Source SCM Tools for Windows Plaforms, 400KB.
Why migrate from cvs or bugzilla to subversion and trac, 380KB.
Does your project have a wiki?, pdf, 161KB.