I wish more Apache projects reach maintenance mode as part of their maturity model. It’s good to complete your mission instead of always digging deeper holes.
Joe Schaefer, Ph.D <[email protected]> +1 (954) 253-3732 SunStar Systems, Inc. Orion - The Enterprise Jamstack Wiki ________________________________ From: Greg Stein <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 2:59:24 PM To: Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Switch read/write repository from Subversion to Git On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 5:18 AM Stefan Sperling <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >... I did have some hope that we would see individual self-motivated contributors arriving via various ASF projects because they are all using SVN every day on svn.apache.org<http://svn.apache.org>, are programmers, might have itches to scratch, already have commit access to ^/subversion, and there is some sense of shared ownership across the ASF community. I was reminded of all this by Graham's remark. It's the lack of such interactions that I find disappointing in retrospect. There certainly have been some, but relatively few. IMO, it is because Subversion is successful. It just works. Zero friction. It doesn't cause developers a headache or an "itch to scratch". One doesn't think to improve their dishwasher. It just works. Why change your hammer? It works. I believe that Subversion hit its goal, and then some. I believe that is why the *use* of Subversion did not lead to a desire to work/fix/change Subversion. Cheers, -g
