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Martin Cooper
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Greg Stein <gstein@gmail.com> wrote:
> Subversion is a version control system. You probably know it well as
> it is the version control system employed by the Apache Software
> Foundation.
>
> The Subversion project would like to join the Apache Software
> Foundation to remove the overhead of having to run its own
> corporation. The Subversion project is already run quite like an
> Apache project, and already counts a number of ASF Members amongst
> its committers.
>
> Work on Subversion was originally started at CollabNet; Karl Fogel
> was hired in January 2000. Jim Blandy, at RedHat, already had an
> initial design for the storage system, which was incorporated into the
> FS design. In February Brian Behlendorf invited Greg Stein to
> contribute his WebDAV experience to Subversion. Ben Colins-Sussman
> was hired in April 2000 to work on the project. In that same month
> the first "all hands" meeting was held, where a number of "interested
> people" came together to talk about the project.
>
> Subversion was run as an open source project since the early days.
> Now, more than nine years later, it retains a healthy community,
> and has a good number of committers. In the life span of Subversion,
> several committers have switched employers and have maintained involvement.
> The committership is diverse, both geographically as well as in terms of
> employment.
>
> The equivalent of the PMC consists of all the full committers to the
> Subversion project (currently around 55 people). The community uses the
> voting process also used at the ASF. Releases are signed off by gathering
> votes/digital signatures of each committer who verified the release
> candidate.
>
> We feel the ASF and Subversion communities are very compatible,
> witness the cross interest that already exists. There is both a
> vibrant developer as well as a large and active user community.
> Technology-wise, Subversion builds on APR, and implements two Apache
> HTTP Server modules.
>
> Note that Subversion has a number of related projects, which are not
> part of this proposal (e.g. cvs2svn, TortoiseSVN, Subclipse).
>
> More information on Subversion can be found at
> http://www.subversion.org/ and http://subversion.tigris.org/.
>
> The Subversion Corporation has a license to all source code, and has
> CLAs on file for nearly all it's committers. That is, we have all but
> one or two full committers, and some percentage of partial committers.
>
> We have a number of *user-configurable* dependencies which are not
> compatible with the AL:
> - Neon, a HTTP client library, used by libsvn_ra_neon, is LGPL.
> (An alternative HTTP client library, libsvn_ra_serf uses the Serf
> library under ALv2.)
>
> - Qt, KDE and GNOME libraries are also under LGPL-2.1. D-Bus (which
> is also used by libsvn_auth_gnome_keyring and libsvn_auth_kwallet) is
> under Academic Free License 2.1 or >=GPL-2.
> (This support is for integration for KDE and GNOME's authentication
> providers.)
>
> - libintl
> (This library provides translation support for systems without
> a proper internationalization library.)
>
> - BDB
> (This is used by the libsvn_fs_base system which stores its data
> in BDB; an alternative repository system called fs_fs does not
> have this dependency.)
>
> ---
> Required Resources
> - Mailing lists
> - dev
> - issues
> - users
> - private
> - commits
> - announce
> - breakage (see
> http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewForumSummary.do?dsForumId=552)
> - We will work with the Infrastructure team to transfer the subscriber
> listings to the new destinations.
> - Subversion:
> - We have not made a decision whether we prefer Subversion should be
> imported into the main ASF Subversion repository or be hosted as a
> separate repository to enable early testing of the repository code. We
> intend to discuss this during the Incubation process before the code is
> imported. It is also understood that ASF infrastructure team may be
> willing to run custom pre-release Subversion server builds for the
> entire ASF, so this separate repository option may not be required.
> - The Subversion source code can be found at:
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/.
> - Issue tracking
> - We haven't made a decision between JIRA or Bugzilla at this time and
> expect this decision to be made as part of the Incubation process. Our
> current issue tracking system uses Issuezilla (a fork of Bugzilla) and
> we have not yet decided whether we want to import our previous issues
> into the new system and will decide this in the course of the Incubation
> process.
> - Our current issue tracker is at
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issue-tracker.html.
> - Buildbot
> - We currently use buildbot across a number of platforms and configurations
> for automated builds and testing. Over time, we would like to migrate
> these services to Apache infrastructure where appropriate.
> - Our current buildbot master is at
> http://buildbot.subversion.org/buildbot/
>
> Note that we request these resources to be at their final locations,
> not an intermediary while going through incubation. The cost of
> switching twice would otherwise be significant due to the size of the
> existing community.
>
> The Subversion team members are happy to work with and assist the ASF
> Infrastructure team to enable early deployments of its release candidates if
> possible.
>
> Initial Committers
>
> The list of initial committers is at
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/COMMITTERS.
>
> The initial PMC members are those listed as full committers in that
> file (lines 1-74).
>
> Sponsors
> * Champion: Greg Stein
> * Nominated Mentors: Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein, Sander Striker, Daniel Rall
> * Sponsor:
>
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