Copying Infra on this. No amount of crying on this list will help if we don't tell Infra that we're not happy.
TL;DR: Why are not the ASF Subversion servers running the latest and greatest version of Subversion? -- Brane On 10.10.2015 00:37, b...@qqmail.nl wrote: > And since then we lost most custom patches to things like the commit mailer, > because policy changed to standardize on using the standard distributions... > > No more nice summaries of what is merged, but just raw diff output. And still > no proper handling of copies, so every pre-copy property is mentioned as > property change. > > Requests to fix this, should now just be forwarded upstream, etc. > > > I'm not sure if that promise still holds... > > Bert > > > > From: Philip Martin > Sent: vrijdag 9 oktober 2015 23:47 > To: Bert Huijben > Cc: Mark Phippard;Subversion Development > Subject: Re: Running SVN 1.9.x on ASF servers? > > > Bert Huijben <b...@qqmail.nl> writes: > >> I think we have a chicken and egg problem here :( >> >> The ASF waits until the distributions update... And the distributions >> don't update to 1.9 because we apparently don't think it is stable >> because we don't update ourselves. > When we first discussed the move into the ASF repository: > > http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-11/0259.shtml > > * Infra is willing to run our release candidates on the main repos, so > we don't need a special server for that. they're pretty much willing > to run anything we ask for (alpha? beta?), but that obviously means > we better be *damned* sure it won't lose or corrupt the repo :-) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Mark Phippard" <markp...@gmail.com> > Sent: 9-10-2015 20:21 > To: "Subversion Development" <dev@subversion.apache.org> > Subject: Running SVN 1.9.x on ASF servers? > > Does anyone know if/when it is planned to update the ASF servers to > Subversion 1.9? > > > The Apache headers say it is still running 1.8.1. Is that true? Or is it a > patched version of 1.8.1 at least?
