Okay, I think I know what's going on; developers at Synology packaged up a subversion server in their particular "Synology way" and since 99.9% of the code and development effort for the whole package was done by ASF (the svn server & related binaries) with the 0.1% (or less) of the effort done by some anonymous dev on the Synology payroll to package it up, they probably thought it was more fair to attribute the entire package to ASF. Misleading, but their heart seems to be in the right place.
If I ever get around to learning how to package up SVN for DSM 7, I'll send an Email to this mailing list. Thanks for getting back to me! On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 06:53, Nathan Hartman <hartman.nat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 7:05 PM Michael Jennings <mike.c.jenni...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I have a Synology NAS which has a subversion server running on it. This >> SVN was installed as a Synology "package". I noticed that there is a newer >> version of the Synology operating system (DSM 7.0) >> but there is not yet a DSM-7 version of the subversion package. >> >> The Synology package manager software listed "Apache Software Foundation" >> as the author of the package, so I was wondering if someone on this >> mailing list had the source code for the Synology subversion server >> package in case someone wanted to try to port the package to DSM 7. >> > > > We do get questions about SVN on Synology NAS every so often. I'm away > from my computer right now but you can try searching the mailing list > archives (see [1]) but as far as I know, whoever made the package for > Synology hasn't identified themselves to this community, so we don't know > who they are. If they list ASF as the author of the package, that's not > exactly correct: Apache Subversion provides source code releases, not > binaries or packages or other products built on top of our source releases. > Those are separate projects. It would be a good thing if the package author > identified themselves correctly. Putting ASF as the author of that package > causes confusion for people like you who come here looking for help with > the package. This is frustrating for everyone. > > [1] > http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html > > Nathan > > -- Mike Jennings
