Subversion for design files: can we do better?

[Jonathan Hung]

Hi James,

I would love to see a DAM used for digital media for the reasons your
mentioned.

I personally would love a system that gave the community a more organic way
to share and annotate images / videos. Currently I've been using an ad-hoc
system of the wiki to collaborate on designs and Jira to connect it to my
work. The problem is that I would end up with multiple clones across
different systems which creates an issue of maintenance.

SVN, Jira, and the wiki aren't great solutions, so anything that helps make
it easier to share design work is very much appreciated!

- Jon.

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:40 AM, James W. Yoon <jyoon at ocadu.ca> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Recently, the question came up about whether the use of Subversion is
> appropriate for storing and organizing our design files. While Subversion
> was never intended for primarily binary files (e.g., design files), it was
> convenient for the designers to piggy back on Fluid's code repository.
> Fluid's code repo has since transitioned over to Github.
>
> What we like about svn:
> - gives a centralized repository for our design and other media files
> - relatively easily updatable (with a good client)
> - keeps a history of the files
>
> What's troublesome about svn:
> - doesn't allow us to title and describe our files (except through file
> names), making it challenging for both designers and non-designers to find
> what they need
> - difficult for two or more designers to work on the same file at the same
> time
> - difficult to use if you don't have an svn client
> - difficult to link to from the wiki, emails, etc. (direct links spew out
> the file as text)
>
> The suggestion of introducing another design repository/collaboration
> solution (e.g., digital assets management software) has come up. Does
> anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on this?
>
> Cheers,
> James
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