Bolstridge, Andrew wrote: > > ROADMAP [...] > > COMMUNITY [...] > > SUMMARY [...] > > So what say you? > > Well, I (as an outsider to the svn dev community) say great! > > My thoughts on this: firstly, to attract more people to the community, > you need to go where they are. This dev mailing list is all well and > good for subversion developers, but that's exactly the audience you've > already got. I think this roadmap/vision/invitation needs to be posted > elsewhere, even if watered down. If you want suggestions for things to > add to the roadmap then post to stackoverflow.com and serverfault.com > and see what the people there come up with (I'll happily create such > posts if you want me to)
Posting to sites such as those could result in useful feedback. Of course it also tends to elicit lots of spammy off-topic comments. If you are prepared to both make the post and summarize the useful bits of feedback for us, that would be fantastic. > I think other main issues are: [...] > To get new developers, I think the first thing that needs to be done > is to make entry easier. That means providing a setup ready-to-debug > for people. The initial hurdle on any software project is getting set > up (I find) so if you could release a VM image with everything set, or > a visual studio project with the code and dependencies in there ready > for someone to press 'compile', then you've made a massive headway to > helping new devs get going. A pre-built Windows solution would be the > ideal - if anyone has one already... let us know :) The documentation > could be better (as always :) ), but getting the code running in a > debugger is probably documentation enough, especially for a new > developer who wants to modify things. That's a very good idea. I wonder if any of our Windows gurus can come up with a practical way to make a ready-to-build package. > Good news on this email though, I love subversion and just look > forward to making it better. Woderful. What would you like to work on first? :-) (In a new thread please.) - Julian
