On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 10:29:04AM +0100, Graham Leggett via dev wrote: > This is a vote of no confidence in our own projects.
If the ASF at large was confident in SVN as a technology then our current reality would look quite different. The Subversion project never managed to grow its developer base by becoming part of the ASF. We've mostly seen people who were already involved beforehand slowly disappearing over time. As a result, maintenance and development activity has declined sharply in recent years. Nobody at the ASF seems to notice or care and the result of a vote such as this won't make any difference in the matter. The overall preference for Github on the HTTPD project makes sense to me and isn't unexpected at all. Subversion passes as a stellar open source project by how it is being run but it is failing to attract open source communities as users based on technical merits. Most of the remaining users are running their Subversion servers behind closed doors.
