SourceForge just announced that their Subversion service is out of beta. Is it time to give it a try? It sounds really great, a lot more that I expected.
It seems that now would be a good time to start testing since development activity is pretty low. (perhaps everyone is busy with other things...). I have not used svn really at all, so I am probably not the one to spearhead this effort. But I can test while learning SVN.
.hc
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Subversion General Availability
The SourceForge.net team is pleased to announce the General Availability of Subversion service to SourceForge.net-hosted projects, effective 2006-02-21. This service offering is in addition to our existing CVS service; as with all of our services, projects may select (and enable in the project admin pages) the portion of our offering that best meets their needs.
We wish to extend our thanks to the many projects and developers who have helped us to test our Subversion service as part of our six-week beta, which completed last week. Our particular thanks go to these projects, whose members provided substantial feedback regarding the new service:
- Inkscape - http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/
- DejaVu Fonts - http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/
- ScummVM - http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/
- evilnet - http://sourceforge.net/projects/evilnet/
Our Subversion service includes:
SSL-based Repository Access:
- Developer Subversion access via HTTPS, auth is requested when you
perform a write operation
- Anonymous Subversion access via HTTPS
- No sync delays between developer and anonymous Subversion access
- Per-developer access control over repository access (ACL support
to be added in the future) via the SourceForge.net permissions system
Web-based viewing:
- Web-based repository access via ViewVC (formerly known as ViewCVS)
On-demand self-service backups and mirroring capability:
- Read-only rsync access to the repository to permit backups and
remote mirroring
Ease of migration:
- Automated self-service migration of your SourceForge.net project CVS
repository, CVS tarball, or Subversion dump to our Subversion service
Well-considered add-ons to basic service:
- A selected set of hook scripts, including commit email support and
CIA bot support
- Statistics tracking of Subversion repository activity
Service may be enabled by project administrators in the "Subversion" section of the Project Admin pages.
Complete service documentation is available at: http://sf.net/docs/E09/
Documentation is provided for supported clients at: http://sf.net/docs/F06/ for the command-line SVN client http://sf.net/docs/F07/ for TortoiseSVN
Our support of Subversion has been based on substantial research and testing in the past few months, which we have pursued specifically based on requests from the community. SourceForge.net continues to consider new technologies and evaluate community requests in further strengthening our service offering.
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