Bert, Nothing has happened from an Infra perspective. We are inundated with other work, and while this is a nice ideal it is not critical and therefore it is not prioritised, yet. I appreciate you want to see it done, and it will be, but sadly it is taking a back seat right now.
-- Cheers, Tony ----------------------- t...@pc-tony.com http://www.pc-tony.com GPG - 3072D/2543E323 ----------------------- > On 21 Jan 2016, at 12:09, Bert Huijben <b...@qqmail.nl> wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > Any news on this? > > I’m trying to find the list this discussion moved to. > > Bert > > From: Greg Stein [mailto:gst...@gmail.com] > Sent: dinsdag 1 december 2015 22:20 > To: Tony Stevenson <pct...@apache.org> > Cc: David Nalley <ke4...@apache.org> > Subject: Re: Running SVN 1.9.x on ASF servers? > > [bcc: dev@svn; switching lists...] > > Yeah. I'll follow up to a more appropriate list, as we're getting into Infra > bits rather than svn bits :-) > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Tony Stevenson <pct...@apache.org> wrote: >> cc+= David Nalley (for oversight, the fact there is an 'issue', etc). >> >> Hey Greg, >> >> Sorry I didn't mean to use beta. You are indeed correct, as usual, they are >> releases. :) >> >> I will state again, that while I appreciate that differing versions of httpd >> and/or subversion (and the libraries it uses) is far from a a trivial task >> for us. This will essentially mean migrating and replacing the current EU >> slave to bring it into line with the US master. You may recall that the US >> master move (and therefore migration) was forced upon us when eris died over >> a year ago now. >> >> This forced move meant the host was put on a different OS, which introduced >> the disparity between the EU and US today. >> >> Fixing this is something that Infra would consider a project piece. i.e. not >> something we can just slot in this week. Given the projects on the table >> already, and the skills in Infra to to do the work being tied up in other >> projects; it is going to be weeks before there is any available cycles to >> address it. >> >> I understand this might not be what you want to hear, but it is a fact of >> where we are in terms of standardising, and automating everything. >> >> With all that being said, I suspect you would not want us to deploy 1.9 onto >> a single host (US) leaving the EU slave where it is now? >> >> >> Tony >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, at 08:45 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >>> We've *always* been willing to help. >>> >>> Note these are not "beta" (like you said back in October). They are 1.9.x >>> release packages. We don't have to do a repository upgrade at this time, >>> but we may want to later. Note that you have different httpd packages on us >>> and eu. That should be fixed first. And then, yes: upgrading the server >>> means upgrading mod_dav_svn. >>> >>> Part of the reason for upgrade is to get everybody better performance, but >>> also to bring us and eu into alignment. Having the write-through proxy be a >>> different stack is not "bad", but it certainly isn't Good. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -g >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Tony Stevenson <pct...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Greg, >>>> >>>> In principal this is fine, yes. If the *PMC* are going to vouch for these >>>> binaries, and are willing to help support Infra if/when they are deployed. >>>> >>>> >>>> Of course, I will re-iterate that Infra will roll back if any forward >>>> rolling is catastrophic to the service. We are also likely to want to >>>> roll up the repo, in to a tarball or some such before hitting the big red >>>> button. JIC we need to roll back, and we cannot undo svnadmin upgrade >>>> (assuming such an action is needed too). >>>> >>>> Perhaps a crash course for the PMC about the stack as is, and how we get >>>> to a deployed update is a good idea? Also, we'd like/need a JIRA issue >>>> for each bump you want (to contain any notices about steps required, or >>>> library changes and so on). >>>> >>>> Will you expect us to roll dav_svn et al each time too? If so we should >>>> ensure that your package names match those upstream in Ubuntu ( I assume >>>> James can cope with that, given his email address ;) ). >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, 29 Nov 2015, at 10:00 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >>>>> Does this work for you, Tony? >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 10:04 PM, James McCoy <james...@debian.org> wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:53:43AM +0100, Bert Huijben wrote: >>>>>> > Is somebody still working on this? >>>>>> >>>>>> I had mentioned on IRC that I'd provide a PPA based on my Debian >>>>>> packaging. I forgot to follow up and state that it's available: >>>>>> >>>>>> https://launchpad.net/~jamessan/+archive/ubuntu/subversion >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> -- >>>>>> James >>>>>> GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@debian.org> >>>> >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Tony >>>> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> -- >> Tony