TBH svn clients are easy to get.  

but that's not a good reason to stick with svn.  a move to git would probably 
revitalize the ci/cd pipeline for this project.   the only real problem i see, 
is who wants to spend the effort to move the repo history over.

 
Stanton Fisque
principal technologist
latticeware.com
portland, oregon

> On Jun 16, 2025, at 19:36 PM, Axel Howind <a...@dua3.com> wrote:
> 
> Definitely move to GitHub and not create another workaround workflow to keep 
> SVN alive. Tools drop SVN support (I think most already have), and just 
> getting a working SVN client is not as easy as it should be (probably depends 
> on platform).
> 
>> Am 17.06.2025 um 02:47 schrieb PJ Fanning <fannin...@apache.org>:
>> 
>> I would support moving to git.
>> GitHub CI has started working on our GitHub mirror. For ages, only
>> commits to the trunk branch triggered jobs but now we are seeing PRs
>> lead to jobs triggering.
>> Our main CI jobs are on https://ci-builds.apache.org/ though.
>> 
>>> On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 at 20:11, Dave Fisher <w...@apache.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Devs,
>>> 
>>> Over the weekend I saw PJ was triaging some PRs from a contributor, and 
>>> thought I would take a look at some of the older ones and do some triage. 
>>> Because of the fact that GitHub.com/apache/poi is git mirror of svn I was 
>>> unable to close these PRs. I can close these issues from a svn commit 
>>> message:
>>> 
>>> svn ci -m ‘closes #123, closes #345’
>>> 
>>> Here’s the GH docs about the commit message: 
>>> https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/using-issues/linking-a-pull-request-to-an-issue#linking-a-pull-request-to-an-issue-using-a-keyword
>>> 
>>> If there are no objections I’ll create a file called `.svn-gh-pr-closer`, 
>>> append notes, and commit messages.
>>> 
>>> The alternative would be to migrate over to GitHub. One prospective way to 
>>> start would be to add CI workflows to GH.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Dave
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