Re: GitHub pull requests

2019-06-19 Thread Paul Hammant
One of the major GitHub social contributions to the community is the ease of forking. I don't mean as part of a "contribution workflow", but as a tool for getting an upstream team to change their attitude. A famous case was Node.js and how it ended well (merged again - http://anandmanisankar.com/po

Re: Docker Svn build environment [was: Subversion's community health]

2019-06-19 Thread Paul Hammant
People wanting to donate a feature or fix a bug with Subversion are increasingly going to be happy with a Docker-based quick start. Most F/OSS teams want tests too, and y'all are very strict there in that regard, and someone who can write tests for your test-base covering code for your codebase is

Re: Docker Svn build environment [was: Subversion's community health]

2019-06-19 Thread Mark Phippard
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 6:36 AM Julian Foad wrote: > Some time within the past year I looked for the best available Docker > deployment of Subversion and found this: > > https://github.com/elleFlorio/svn-docker > "Lightweight Docker image to build a container running an SVN server" > > It might b

Re: Subversion's community health

2019-06-19 Thread Julian Foad
Nathan Hartman wrote: All of the above -- being mature, reaching the stability phase, etc -- is true of Subversion 1.x. It is _not_ true of "Subversion" without a 1.x after it. [...] Subversion 1.x is mature. Subversion 2.0 is now on the drawing board. A very good point. [...] Prong 1: Everyt

Re: Docker Svn build environment [was: Subversion's community health]

2019-06-19 Thread Julian Foad
Some time within the past year I looked for the best available Docker deployment of Subversion and found this: https://github.com/elleFlorio/svn-docker "Lightweight Docker image to build a container running an SVN server" It might be helpful as a starting point for creating a dev environment.

Re: GitHub pull requests

2019-06-19 Thread Julian Foad
We don't handle GitHub pull requests well. Should we change something? The issue: - there is a "mirror" of svn source code on GitHub [1] - that makes it look like people could submit pull-requests - a (very) few people have tried to do so [2] - it isn't integrated with our project work flow - sv

Re: Subversion's community health

2019-06-19 Thread Julian Foad
Paul Hammant wrote: Nobody is going to roll up to contribute to 1.x or 2.x Subversion if there is no copy-pasteable instructions for building on Mac, Win and Linux. And there's not - https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion /trunk/INSTALL - has no apt, nuget or homebrew advice [...] That's

Docker Svn build environment [was: Subversion's community health]

2019-06-19 Thread Julian Foad
Paul Hammant wrote: Michael Pilato wrote: Paul Hammant wrote: Nobody is going to roll up to contribute to 1.x or 2.x Subversion if there is no copy-pasteable instructions for building on Mac, Win and Linux. Is there an opportunity here for someone to whip up a Dockerized development environ