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Today was the annual Agile North conference held in Preston, Lancashire. It was a one day event with three different session tracks going on at once. Obviously there were lots of sessions that I wanted to attend but the ones that stood out the most were "Dealing with Customers" and "Storytelling with FIT". The day started with a keynote speech from Rachel Davies who is a member of the Agile Alliance. It was great to finally meet a "face" of the Agile Alliance and to hear about how they formed and what their focus was. Rachel was a good presenter and kept the audience captured for the duration of her talk. There was also a good amount of discussion in the Questions & Answers part at the end of her talk. I had two key "take aways" from her talk: Don't stick rigidly to the process if situations are changing Get hold of a copy of "Waltzing with Bears" book Dealing with Customers by Charles Weir of Penrillian Charles held t

After installing the backported package of Subversion last week and importing a pre-existing codebase into it I decided that now was a good time to put Trac on the server. Following my previously blogged Trac installation & configuration guides I was able to get Trac up and running fairly smoothly with one small problem: the "Browse Source" button was failing reporting some issue with "svn" being an unknown repository type. After some searching and thinking I realised that this was most probably due to conflict between the newer backported version of Subversion and the older Python Subversion bindings libraries. Here's how I resolved this issue: apt-get remove python2.3-subversion apt-get install python-subversion Refreshed my browser and everything worked correctly! Technorati Tags: Andrew Beacock , Trac , Subversion , Python , Backports , Debian

Following on from my previous posts about installing Subversion from source, here are some notes on how to do it using backported Debian packages . Add the following lines to your sources.list file in /etc/apt: # backports deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main contrib non-free Update your Apt sources list: apt-get update Uninstall any old Subversion packages: apt-get remove subversion apt-get remove libsvn0 Install Subversion with 1.3.2 as a specific version (this causes the backported version to override the stable version): apt-get install libsvn0=1.3.2-5~bpo1 apt-get install subversion=1.3.2-5~bpo1 Check that the installed Subversion is the right one by using svn --version you should get something like: svn, version 1.3.2 (r19776) compiled Aug 12 2006, 12:05:49 ... Install the Apache2 Subversion modules: apt-get install libapache2-svn=1.3.2-5~bpo1 Follow my instructions on Configuring Subversion (svn) on Linux (Debian Stable) . There you go! Technorati Ta