[wx-dev] Transitioning to Subversion

[Robin Dunn]

Vadim Zeitlin wrote:

> RD> Secondly, does anyone have an objection to hosting the SVN server on the 
> RD> VPS where I have the wxPython sites and the current SVN test server 
> RD> located?  If so, why?  Where would you suggest to host it instead?
> 
>  The only suggestion for hosting I have is at Google. They're supposed to
> have very efficient subversion servers (and as several of main subversion
> developers work there I tend to believe it) and probably should be stable
> enough for the foreseeable future. OTOH their project hosting is still very
> new and it doesn't even have ViewVC apparently (which is too useful to
> seriously consider life without it).

The big problem with hosting at Google is that they only allow projects 
that use one of a fairly small set of licenses, and the wx license is 
not on the list.  It seems that they are making a political statement 
about the number of FLOSS licenses: 
http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=56537&topic=10383


> 
>  Of course, SF provides svn too now but even with my rather low usage of it
> I already had several problems with it.
> 
> RD> Next step: user names.  My first inclination is to keep the same names 
> RD> we have now, (RD, VZ, RR, JS, etc.) in order to keep continuity with the 
> RD> revision history.
> 
>  This would be nice.
> 
> RD> However since they'll be based on real user names on this system I
> RD> think it will just convert them to lower case.
> 
>  At least here I have a "user" called Debian-exim so it seems using
> capitals in the login names doesn't create any special problems. But we
> need to test it, using lower-case initials would be indeed weird.

There's apparently a bug in the software I'm using to manage the site. 
In the area for managing the users for the virtual servers (including 
SVN users) it always down-cases the names, although it does keep the 
uppercase names in another part of the software.  I've logged a report 
with the software developers, and they've been fairly responsive in the 
past so we'll see.

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Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
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