+1 Thanks, Senaka.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@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: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
