mod_dav_svn of SVN 1.9.3 doesn't seem to calc repo names from URLs with spaces properly.

2019-06-14 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Hi all, I'm hosting some SVN-repos using mod_dav_svn and am running into problems when using URLs with spaces. My approach is simply to have a directory structure of SVN-repos grouped by customers or some topic and for each of those groups I want to configure a corresponding URL as entry point in

Subversion's community health

2019-06-14 Thread Julian Foad
The Subversion community has gradually become much less active. We have reached the point where we are struggling to even put out a release. Johan said I may quote his thoughts, so I will: Indeed, I was just wondering about the same thing, before I read your response, Julian. It's quite clear t

Re: mod_dav_svn of SVN 1.9.3 doesn't seem to calc repo names from URLs with spaces properly.

2019-06-14 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Thorsten Schöning, am Freitag, 14. Juni 2019 um 12:12 schrieben Sie: > And I think that's the problem: The matched location is forwarded > using a space to mod_dav_svn, which tries to calculate the repo name > from the request and that request most likely containes %20 instead of > the s

Re: Subversion's community health

2019-06-14 Thread Mark Phippard
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 9:26 AM Julian Foad wrote: > The Subversion community has gradually become much less active. We have > reached the point where we are struggling to even put out a release. > > Johan said I may quote his thoughts, so I will: > > Indeed, I was just wondering about the same t

Re: Subversion's community health

2019-06-14 Thread Julian Foad
Mark Phippard wrote: Making a suggestion here is tough. [...] Ah, yes -- I didn't mean to discourage anyone from just describing a problem; that can then help others seek a solution. Thanks for sharing the problem of building downstream from the frequent releases. - Julian

Re: Subversion's community health

2019-06-14 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Julian Foad : > Anyone with constructive suggestions, please do share them. Please let us > not dwell on our sadness and criticism of what went before; let us try to > keep this thread focused on positive solutions for what to do next. You guys know me. I'm a past contributor, occasional critic,

SvnMerkleizer: announcement

2019-06-14 Thread Paul Hammant
URL: https://github.com/paul-hammant/SvnMerkleizer It's a Java process that runs alongside Apache and MOD_DAV_SVN to make a full Merkle tree of the repo. Implicitly too, any sub-directory within. It attempts to maintain different trees for people with different read permissions/groups. Coming with

Re: Subversion's community health

2019-06-14 Thread Paul Hammant
Three PRs out on GitHub for Subversion spanning years - https://github.com/apache/subversion/pulls ^ "join in" versus "don't join" in is communicated via team welcoming, curating, and consuming of PRs in this age. Sure, Julian's shelve tech is the starting point of a PR system for Subversion itsel

Re: Subversion's community health

2019-06-14 Thread Karl Fogel
Julian Foad wrote: >Ah, yes -- I didn't mean to discourage anyone from just describing a >problem; that can then help others seek a solution. [...] One thing I wonder is how widely Subversion is in non-published trees, especially corporate trees. For example, my company uses Subversion internal

Re: Subversion's community health

2019-06-14 Thread Nathan Hartman
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 10:35 AM Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Julian Foad : > > not dwell on our sadness and criticism of what went before; let us try to > > keep this thread focused on positive solutions for what to do next. > It's all a matter of publicity. Git gets all the publicity because open