With the popularity of ArcGIS Server and the expertise in it AGRC has gained, AGRC has evolved it's GIS role from a GIS shop that dabbled with VBA and python to a GIS shop that is pushing out custom applications for clients.  With this change of gears, AGRC has had to adapt it's methods to cope with the requirements and deadlines of software development.

AGRC has been trying to build its programming expertise and with this push multiple employees are working on the same project simultaneously. ESRI provides a versioned geodatabase for multiple GIS professionals editing the same dataset and AGRC needed the same functionality for its project source code files.

After many months of dealing without this functionality and looking into what we needed we finally took the plunge.  We installed another open source solution for source code management: Subversion.  We are using subversion and its GUI partner TortoiseSVN to manage our projects source code in our multi-user editing environment.

As we explore the in's and out's of this solution we will post about our findings.