"Hyrum K. Wright" <hyrum_wri...@mail.utexas.edu> writes: >Because we are a large and mature project, there is also a certain >amount of maintenance cost just to maintain parity with ourselves and >other SCM systems. Our ever-increasing list of outstanding issues >witnesses to the fact that we aren't very good at maintaining that >parity.
The ever-increasing list of outstanding issues reflects a large user base, most likely :-). I'm not saying SVN shouldn't implement features from other VCSs where appropriate, but don't take the growth of the bug database as a bad thing -- bug growth corresponds to users. -K
