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[INFRA-7524] migrate Apache Subversion project over to the git repo
- mmastrac 13y agoApril fools joke, obviously.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- elefont2 13y agoThis is an example of a pretty good april fools joke - Enough to cause an emotional reaction, but not so far out there that it is obviously fake.
- arielweisberg 13y agoIs this an April fool's joke? The discussion seems odd. I LOLed
- arielweisberg 13y agoSeriously? Downvoting? Did you actually read the discussion? "I would like to point out that the new community dynamic for git-based projects is different in many salient ways from a traditional subversion project. Voting in private, or even decisions by fiat of the chair, are most welcome in the new regime. It is good to see the subversion project embrace this new mode of project development in their smart exodus from the chains of the past." Joe Schaefer
- stephen 13y agoWell, despite the initial "haha" reaction, I feel bad for the Subversion project team for all of the attention/politics they're going to get from this. As you can see on the ticket, they'll already getting the usual Apache internal politics of "that's not how we did it in the 90s!" reaction to any infrastructure/tool changes. And, with showing up on HN, they'll likely have everyone snickering at how Subversion is so obviously inferior to git that even their own dev team doesn't use it anymore. When really they're just trying to do their job, with the tools that work best for their situation. (I assume, I have no internal knowledge of their decision, I'm just assuming good intentions.)
- DomBlack 13y agoThis is an April Fools joke.
- grkvlt 13y agoNo, it isn't.
- rabino 13y agoYes it is. See, discussing is fun.
- stephen 13y agoIf it is, it's incredibly well played by Greg Stein. He's riffing off the oft-lambasted git/svn politics, private lists, etc. bureaucracy of Apache, which, to me, made the ticket seem really believable. ...will have to wait until 4/2 to see whether I'm a sucker or not. Although perhaps that means that I am either way. :-)
- grkvlt 13y agoSee @jimjag's twitter feed (https://twitter.com/jimjag https://twitter.com/jimjag) for more discussion
- grkvlt 13y agoOk, that was very well done... ;)
- rabino 13y agoIt seems you are a sucker. (With the utmost respect, of course) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524?focusedCommentId=13957226&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13957226 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524?focusedComm...
- astrodust 13y agoObviously Subversion is important from a historical perspective, there are so many repositories out there will need to be supported for some time, but it does seem like a flawed enterprise to keep actively developing Subversion. Wouldn't that time be better spent on a platform that's viable, like git, Mercurial, or some other experimental platform that might make a big breakthrough? Everyone's bailing on that project, including Subversion itself. Isn't that a sign you should, you know, move on?
- nknighthb 13y agoEven CVS is, sadly, still in use. Subversion, being far superior, is likely to itself remain in use in even more places well into the next decade. It'd be nice to avoid bitrot and see pain points further smoothed over.
- zimpenfish 13y agoI spent a month of my last contract writing wrappers to reimplement SCCS commands on top of SVN because that was the easiest way for them to migrate.
- TD-Linux 13y agoWe still use subversion for binary file tracking - specifically Altium files and the like. In thus case, we heavily use the locking feature. Git does not fit well when merging changes is nearly impossible. In addition, the local copy size for Git would be way too large.
- _wmd 13y agoAs a terminally gullible person, even I have doubts the Apache bureaucracy could really be this incredibly stupid. April fools?
- pessimizer 13y agoIf you look at the other comments, I think you deserve a promotion from terminally gullible to generally optimistic.
- rst 13y agoSeems so. Check the "history" tab in the "activity" panel, under "description": "Pfft! Happy April's fool!" https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:changehistory-tabpanel https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524?page=com.at...
- grkvlt 13y agoI have doubts anyone could be so incredibly stupid as to raise an issue in the INFRA JIRA as a joke. Note that requests are made to the ASF infrastructure team by creating issues in this project, such as provisioning and maintenance. Obviously @jimjag is taking a dim view of the request, but that's for different reasons; the (perceived) lack of transparency by the PMC when making this decision. However I think getting the infrastructure team to migrate a repository just for the LOLz would be seen even less favourably.
- grkvlt 13y agoOr not...
- michaelmartin 13y agoI hope it's an April Fools still, but here it is on Github: https://github.com/apache/subversion https://github.com/apache/subversion
- Xylakant 13y agoThe mirror to git exists since quite some time. It's a read-only mirror though.
- cweagans 13y agoCan't tell if April fools joke or serious.
- tjtrapp 13y agoApril fools! Take a quick look on the history tab: >> Tony Stevenson made changes - Today 16: Comment [ Pfft! Happy April's fool! >> For immediate release: Apache Subversion votes to rename itself Apache Irony, creates a black hole and disappears. ]
- Randgalt 13y agoIt's now official: "April Fools: migrate Apache Subversion project over to the git repo" - best tech April Fools yet. Pure genius.