Branching Out

Yes, we are live! I am very excited to finally be able to show Trunks off and open it up. If you want to sign up, please hit the homepage and fill out your email address in the green box!

Currently, we are just having a limited beta. At first, I mainly want to gauge what the app's performance is and slowly add more users into the mix. Rest assured I will be gradually adding batches of more users as I try to get a good baseline on the performance.

So where are we currently? Trunks fully support SVN, Git, and Mercurial. You can create your repositories, browse the source, and browse commits. You can manage your profile and your SSH keys.

What is to be coming? There is still a good amount. Currently, Trunks isn't displaying diffs with the commits. I need to add that back in after refactoring some stuff. Bazaar support needs to be finished. Additional features down the road are deployment keys (including deployment users for SVN), collaboration, and going to be putting a lot of thought in efficient navigation of lots of repositories. There will also be some features I'll throw in here and there.

How long will the beta last? I am not looking for a long beta. I would expect it to end before Christmas. I don't expect to have every single feature in before then, but I expect to have everything advertised (collaboration and such), as well as any bugs that creep up stamped out. Since I've had Trunks up for almost a year, but only open to a few friends, I expect it to be fairly stable.

How can you report issues? When in the app, just click the Help button either in the header or footer, or head over to the Support Portal.

Did you see the pricing? With the beta, I've also decided to make pricing known. You will find the pricing page has full details. We've aimed to keep the service as low-cost as possible, but also without cutting corners. There is a fine line between making it cheap and valuing your own work though. My hope is to find a nice balance. The reality is I am not starting this service to get rich, else I wouldn't have chosen these prices. Rather, I wanted others to enjoy the service as much as I do, and wanted to make it accessible. Pride in your work is worth more than dollars can make up for... in most cases. :)

How often will you deploy updates? As frequent as I have new stuff to show and I'm confident in its stability. With bug fixes, I hope to push them regularly, so will likely maintain two branches so I can deploy fixes safely ahead of features. I will likely have a regular maintenance window of 11pm-12am, with posted notices of updates 18 hours in advance (may post in the morning that we're updating that night). I'd expect main features pushes to be Sunday nights, as I'll likely develop them over the weekend.