What's New in Helix VCS Fall Releases 2017

Editor's Notes

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• #6: Our customers have experienced a very good performance benefit of our parallel sync and submit feature. If you are unaware, this feature uses multiple network channels to transfer several files at the same time. With 2017.2, this feature has also been extended to the Shelve feature. This provides the same performance benefit to the ever popular shelving feature.
• #7: 2017.2 includes the capability to integrate with 3rd party tools, such as Aspera or File Catalyst for transporting file content between commit and edge servers. This capability is provided with the introduction of Pull-Archive and Edge-Content triggers. This leads to performance of up to 13 times faster for transmitting file content. The Pull-Archive trigger allows Helix to pass off the responsibility of transmitting large files to Aspera when moving files from Commit to Edge with pull threads. The Edge-Content trigger allows Helix to pass off the responsibility of transmitting large files to Aspera when moving files from Edge to Commit during the Submit operation.
• #9: Scalability / Performance May want to look more deeply at federated architecture when they determine if we'll be used across more sites  Federated architecture for LAN speed Auto-synchronizes content over WAN Tens of thousands of users, millions of transactions per day Federated across multiple geographies in a secure performant way Proof a solution that doesn’t sacrifice speed with scale Case Study: SFDC 3-4 Large releases each year Thousands of tests, 3K engineers All developers work on a single repository in Perforce (one line of code) 550K tests per hour 10M transactions per day Customer since 2000 Security & Compliance Security is a big deal & being able to slice and dice the depot is very appealing  No bug tracking currently in use  Roles with finely grained permissions Reliable, traceable, immutable history Broad integrations (LDAP, ext. tools) Permissions are important; who sees what? Artists don’t need to mess with source code. Case Study: GE Healthcare FDA requirement; chain of custody 7-10 lifespan requirement – products must be serviced Replace ClearCase; virtually impossible to do build required that allowed updates in an efficient manner Integration with HP / Electric Commander Version Everything Work with large binary asset files  Custom file type handling Supports huge binary files Handles any number of files - Every single aspect of a game can be versioned and modified using our solution. - From EA Sports to a small shop like Ravn Studio, our solution is lauded for ability to handle binary files. Flexible Teams Interested in Swarm  Starting group mostly in-house with a few outside consultants  Supports teams around the world Automate the flow of code for all Solutions for Git and its challenges - Samsung uses Perforce for not just mobile, but TV, Semiconductors, printers, development teams span several countries. - 700 Git repositories. Samsung customer of chipset Qualcomm, 10K users over 500TB and repo Most Advanced DVCS Work locally, offline Narrow and variably-shallow cloning Lightweight in-place local branches Copy server-to-server with one push - Our own “Git” Workflow Broad Integrations Maya, CAD, photoshop, Unity, etc.  Would like to focus on Unity and other 3D software integration  Developer IDE plugins Plugins for popular game engines Plugins for industry standard CI/CD APIs to roll your own tools Case Study: Scania Automotive Must provide MISRA and ISO2626 compliance Adapted Agile / Continuous delivery Using SVN / ClearCase Integration with a variety of tools wasn’t possible; admin burden way too high Jenkins, JIRA, VisualStudio, .NET, Java
• #10: Ability to add groups as moderators, reviewers & @ mentions in Swarm Benefit: Makes it easier & faster for Project owners, review authors & commenters to setup a group of individuals who can approve, vote or comment on a review, instead of needing to add 10-50 individual users.  Ability to expand a group membership by adding a sub-group: Benefit: Saves time & effort to add individuals as group members, if there is already a sub-group present for those members. Ability to add a "mailing list" email address to a group, so that all notifications go to that mailing list Benefit: Improves productivity by enabling email clients, such as Outlook, to be able to filter, group & prioritize email notifications received from Swarm by group mailing lists If a mailing list is provided, then admins can setup notification preferences for the group, the same way users do for their own notifications preference Benefit: Reduce spam to group members by enabling group owners to select what events should trigger a notification to the group members
• #11: Ability to add groups as moderators, reviewers & @ mentions in Swarm Benefit: Makes it easier & faster for Project owners, review authors & commenters to setup a group of individuals who can approve, vote or comment on a review, instead of needing to add 10-50 individual users.  Ability to expand a group membership by adding a sub-group: Benefit: Saves time & effort to add individuals as group members, if there is already a sub-group present for those members. Ability to add a "mailing list" email address to a group, so that all notifications go to that mailing list Benefit: Improves productivity by enabling email clients, such as Outlook, to be able to filter, group & prioritize email notifications received from Swarm by group mailing lists If a mailing list is provided, then admins can setup notification preferences for the group, the same way users do for their own notifications preference Benefit: Reduce spam to group members by enabling group owners to select what events should trigger a notification to the group members
• #12: Ability to add groups as moderators, reviewers & @ mentions in Swarm Benefit: Makes it easier & faster for Project owners, review authors & commenters to setup a group of individuals who can approve, vote or comment on a review, instead of needing to add 10-50 individual users.  Ability to expand a group membership by adding a sub-group: Benefit: Saves time & effort to add individuals as group members, if there is already a sub-group present for those members. Ability to add a "mailing list" email address to a group, so that all notifications go to that mailing list Benefit: Improves productivity by enabling email clients, such as Outlook, to be able to filter, group & prioritize email notifications received from Swarm by group mailing lists If a mailing list is provided, then admins can setup notification preferences for the group, the same way users do for their own notifications preference Benefit: Reduce spam to group members by enabling group owners to select what events should trigger a notification to the group members
• #13: Ability to filter reviews on account of being part of a group or an individual Benefit: Improve efficiency of users by enabling them to find or filter out all reviews that they are a reviewer of, on account of being the member of a group that is set as the reviewer of those reviews.  Ability to choose whether an action from one user will represent the action of the whole group, or that all users within the group need to take an action in order for the group action to be counted  Benefit: Provides flexibility to the user to choose from two ways to account for group votes
• #14: Ability to filter reviews on account of being part of a group or an individual Benefit: Improve efficiency of users by enabling them to find or filter out all reviews that they are a reviewer of, on account of being the member of a group that is set as the reviewer of those reviews.  Ability to choose whether an action from one user will represent the action of the whole group, or that all users within the group need to take an action in order for the group action to be counted  Benefit: Provides flexibility to the user to choose from two ways to account for group votes
• #15: Better user experience for Reviews list: Features & Benefits Sort reviews by the most recently active review on the top, or the most recently created review on top Benefits: Improved productivity & time saving to users who are trying to filter and identify the reviews that they need to pay attention to the most. For the most part users like to see the most active reviews on the top of the list. This feature will enable users to do that. Improved flexibility, in giving the users an option to also see which reviews were created most recently.  The default option is sort by "Created", but can be changed in a swarm configurable.  Benefits: Improved flexibility for admins & better usability for end users: to determine which sort order should be the default sort order on the reviews list. Depending on the number of open reviews the firms has the admin can have the option to compromise between performance & usability. e.g. if there are > 200K open reviews, then sorting by "Last Activity" date may take longer than the default sorting by "Created Date". Update the Roles filter to enable users to select from "reviews that I've authored", "participated in any form" and "an author or participant" Benefits: Improved productivity in being able to find & build a review list that only concerns the user, either as an author or as a participant or both.
• #16: Additional options to select for email notifications. Example, email me when .... I am the moderator of a review, and files in the review are updated. I am the author of a review, and the review is committed. I have changed the state of a review (should default to false). I am the [author|reviewer|moderator] of a review, and tests on the review have completed (tests have passed, or tests have failed). Enable email clients to be able to filter & chain Swarm email notifications by author & review ids Benefits: More flexibility & control for the end-user to receive only the most relevant email notifications from Swarm. Improved visibility & relevance of emails from Swarm, by filtering via the newly added email headers
• #17: Additional options to select for email notifications. Example, email me when .... I am the moderator of a review, and files in the review are updated. I am the author of a review, and the review is committed. I have changed the state of a review (should default to false). I am the [author|reviewer|moderator] of a review, and tests on the review have completed (tests have passed, or tests have failed). Enable email clients to be able to filter & chain Swarm email notifications by author & review ids Benefits: More flexibility & control for the end-user to receive only the most relevant email notifications from Swarm. Improved visibility & relevance of emails from Swarm, by filtering via the newly added email headers
• #18: Additional options to select for email notifications. Example, email me when .... I am the moderator of a review, and files in the review are updated. I am the author of a review, and the review is committed. I have changed the state of a review (should default to false). I am the [author|reviewer|moderator] of a review, and tests on the review have completed (tests have passed, or tests have failed). Enable email clients to be able to filter & chain Swarm email notifications by author & review ids Benefits: More flexibility & control for the end-user to receive only the most relevant email notifications from Swarm. Improved visibility & relevance of emails from Swarm, by filtering via the newly added email headers
• #20: Scalability / Performance May want to look more deeply at federated architecture when they determine if we'll be used across more sites  Federated architecture for LAN speed Auto-synchronizes content over WAN Tens of thousands of users, millions of transactions per day Federated across multiple geographies in a secure performant way Proof a solution that doesn’t sacrifice speed with scale Case Study: SFDC 3-4 Large releases each year Thousands of tests, 3K engineers All developers work on a single repository in Perforce (one line of code) 550K tests per hour 10M transactions per day Customer since 2000 Security & Compliance Security is a big deal & being able to slice and dice the depot is very appealing  No bug tracking currently in use  Roles with finely grained permissions Reliable, traceable, immutable history Broad integrations (LDAP, ext. tools) Permissions are important; who sees what? Artists don’t need to mess with source code. Case Study: GE Healthcare FDA requirement; chain of custody 7-10 lifespan requirement – products must be serviced Replace ClearCase; virtually impossible to do build required that allowed updates in an efficient manner Integration with HP / Electric Commander Version Everything Work with large binary asset files  Custom file type handling Supports huge binary files Handles any number of files - Every single aspect of a game can be versioned and modified using our solution. - From EA Sports to a small shop like Ravn Studio, our solution is lauded for ability to handle binary files. Flexible Teams Interested in Swarm  Starting group mostly in-house with a few outside consultants  Supports teams around the world Automate the flow of code for all Solutions for Git and its challenges - Samsung uses Perforce for not just mobile, but TV, Semiconductors, printers, development teams span several countries. - 700 Git repositories. Samsung customer of chipset Qualcomm, 10K users over 500TB and repo Most Advanced DVCS Work locally, offline Narrow and variably-shallow cloning Lightweight in-place local branches Copy server-to-server with one push - Our own “Git” Workflow Broad Integrations Maya, CAD, photoshop, Unity, etc.  Would like to focus on Unity and other 3D software integration  Developer IDE plugins Plugins for popular game engines Plugins for industry standard CI/CD APIs to roll your own tools Case Study: Scania Automotive Must provide MISRA and ISO2626 compliance Adapted Agile / Continuous delivery Using SVN / ClearCase Integration with a variety of tools wasn’t possible; admin burden way too high Jenkins, JIRA, VisualStudio, .NET, Java
• #27: Within Eclipse you can now create or update a Swarm review with the updated menu options. Pre-Commit Reviews Use P4 Pending Changelist Post-Commit Reviews Use Via P4 Submitted Changelist
• #28: Choose Pending or Submitted Changelist: Context-Click – New Swarm Review Choose files to shelve for review Enter Review Description (optional) Select users to include in the review Add or Browse for users Supports pre & post commit review models
• #29: Choose a pending changelist Context-click – Update Swarm Review Select pending files to update Modify review description (optional)
• #31: Scalability / Performance May want to look more deeply at federated architecture when they determine if we'll be used across more sites  Federated architecture for LAN speed Auto-synchronizes content over WAN Tens of thousands of users, millions of transactions per day Federated across multiple geographies in a secure performant way Proof a solution that doesn’t sacrifice speed with scale Case Study: SFDC 3-4 Large releases each year Thousands of tests, 3K engineers All developers work on a single repository in Perforce (one line of code) 550K tests per hour 10M transactions per day Customer since 2000 Security & Compliance Security is a big deal & being able to slice and dice the depot is very appealing  No bug tracking currently in use  Roles with finely grained permissions Reliable, traceable, immutable history Broad integrations (LDAP, ext. tools) Permissions are important; who sees what? Artists don’t need to mess with source code. Case Study: GE Healthcare FDA requirement; chain of custody 7-10 lifespan requirement – products must be serviced Replace ClearCase; virtually impossible to do build required that allowed updates in an efficient manner Integration with HP / Electric Commander Version Everything Work with large binary asset files  Custom file type handling Supports huge binary files Handles any number of files - Every single aspect of a game can be versioned and modified using our solution. - From EA Sports to a small shop like Ravn Studio, our solution is lauded for ability to handle binary files. Flexible Teams Interested in Swarm  Starting group mostly in-house with a few outside consultants  Supports teams around the world Automate the flow of code for all Solutions for Git and its challenges - Samsung uses Perforce for not just mobile, but TV, Semiconductors, printers, development teams span several countries. - 700 Git repositories. Samsung customer of chipset Qualcomm, 10K users over 500TB and repo Most Advanced DVCS Work locally, offline Narrow and variably-shallow cloning Lightweight in-place local branches Copy server-to-server with one push - Our own “Git” Workflow Broad Integrations Maya, CAD, photoshop, Unity, etc.  Would like to focus on Unity and other 3D software integration  Developer IDE plugins Plugins for popular game engines Plugins for industry standard CI/CD APIs to roll your own tools Case Study: Scania Automotive Must provide MISRA and ISO2626 compliance Adapted Agile / Continuous delivery Using SVN / ClearCase Integration with a variety of tools wasn’t possible; admin burden way too high Jenkins, JIRA, VisualStudio, .NET, Java
• #36: Scalability / Performance May want to look more deeply at federated architecture when they determine if we'll be used across more sites  Federated architecture for LAN speed Auto-synchronizes content over WAN Tens of thousands of users, millions of transactions per day Federated across multiple geographies in a secure performant way Proof a solution that doesn’t sacrifice speed with scale Case Study: SFDC 3-4 Large releases each year Thousands of tests, 3K engineers All developers work on a single repository in Perforce (one line of code) 550K tests per hour 10M transactions per day Customer since 2000 Security & Compliance Security is a big deal & being able to slice and dice the depot is very appealing  No bug tracking currently in use  Roles with finely grained permissions Reliable, traceable, immutable history Broad integrations (LDAP, ext. tools) Permissions are important; who sees what? Artists don’t need to mess with source code. Case Study: GE Healthcare FDA requirement; chain of custody 7-10 lifespan requirement – products must be serviced Replace ClearCase; virtually impossible to do build required that allowed updates in an efficient manner Integration with HP / Electric Commander Version Everything Work with large binary asset files  Custom file type handling Supports huge binary files Handles any number of files - Every single aspect of a game can be versioned and modified using our solution. - From EA Sports to a small shop like Ravn Studio, our solution is lauded for ability to handle binary files. Flexible Teams Interested in Swarm  Starting group mostly in-house with a few outside consultants  Supports teams around the world Automate the flow of code for all Solutions for Git and its challenges - Samsung uses Perforce for not just mobile, but TV, Semiconductors, printers, development teams span several countries. - 700 Git repositories. Samsung customer of chipset Qualcomm, 10K users over 500TB and repo Most Advanced DVCS Work locally, offline Narrow and variably-shallow cloning Lightweight in-place local branches Copy server-to-server with one push - Our own “Git” Workflow Broad Integrations Maya, CAD, photoshop, Unity, etc.  Would like to focus on Unity and other 3D software integration  Developer IDE plugins Plugins for popular game engines Plugins for industry standard CI/CD APIs to roll your own tools Case Study: Scania Automotive Must provide MISRA and ISO2626 compliance Adapted Agile / Continuous delivery Using SVN / ClearCase Integration with a variety of tools wasn’t possible; admin burden way too high Jenkins, JIRA, VisualStudio, .NET, Java
• #37: Scalability / Performance May want to look more deeply at federated architecture when they determine if we'll be used across more sites  Federated architecture for LAN speed Auto-synchronizes content over WAN Tens of thousands of users, millions of transactions per day Federated across multiple geographies in a secure performant way Proof a solution that doesn’t sacrifice speed with scale Case Study: SFDC 3-4 Large releases each year Thousands of tests, 3K engineers All developers work on a single repository in Perforce (one line of code) 550K tests per hour 10M transactions per day Customer since 2000 Security & Compliance Security is a big deal & being able to slice and dice the depot is very appealing  No bug tracking currently in use  Roles with finely grained permissions Reliable, traceable, immutable history Broad integrations (LDAP, ext. tools) Permissions are important; who sees what? Artists don’t need to mess with source code. Case Study: GE Healthcare FDA requirement; chain of custody 7-10 lifespan requirement – products must be serviced Replace ClearCase; virtually impossible to do build required that allowed updates in an efficient manner Integration with HP / Electric Commander Version Everything Work with large binary asset files  Custom file type handling Supports huge binary files Handles any number of files - Every single aspect of a game can be versioned and modified using our solution. - From EA Sports to a small shop like Ravn Studio, our solution is lauded for ability to handle binary files. Flexible Teams Interested in Swarm  Starting group mostly in-house with a few outside consultants  Supports teams around the world Automate the flow of code for all Solutions for Git and its challenges - Samsung uses Perforce for not just mobile, but TV, Semiconductors, printers, development teams span several countries. - 700 Git repositories. Samsung customer of chipset Qualcomm, 10K users over 500TB and repo Most Advanced DVCS Work locally, offline Narrow and variably-shallow cloning Lightweight in-place local branches Copy server-to-server with one push - Our own “Git” Workflow Broad Integrations Maya, CAD, photoshop, Unity, etc.  Would like to focus on Unity and other 3D software integration  Developer IDE plugins Plugins for popular game engines Plugins for industry standard CI/CD APIs to roll your own tools Case Study: Scania Automotive Must provide MISRA and ISO2626 compliance Adapted Agile / Continuous delivery Using SVN / ClearCase Integration with a variety of tools wasn’t possible; admin burden way too high Jenkins, JIRA, VisualStudio, .NET, Java
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