On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 2:56 PM Daniel Sahlberg <daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > As you all probably know Subversion was initially started by CollabNet and > several high profile committers have worked there (and some still do). > However the company's interest in Subversion has decreased over the years > with several important domains slipping into the digital graveyard. > > Our page of binary packages [1] links to > https://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/linux.html and > https://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/ > > On May 8th the SSL certificate associated with https://www.collab.net > expired. Even if accepting the expired certificate (or connecting without > encryption) the links above redirect to https://digital.ai and I can't > find any traces of Subversion-related downloads. > > In [2] we decided that a link should allow downloading a "current" > release. The links does not fullfil this requirement. > > Considering the above, I'm proposing (with a great deal of sadness) that > we remove the links to Collab.net. If someone know if Digital.AI still > provide downloads at an updated URL we can update the links. > I concur that this is the appropriate action. While there remains some energy expended within Digital.ai around what I would call "Subversion adjacent" activities, there's nothing that rises (in my estimation) to the level of an imminent return to Subversion community support. Should that change and my company begin investing again in this space, it's almost as easy to add new links as it is to remove them. -- Mike
