Hi SVN Users!
I'm Peter, and I'm excited to hear your feedback on *svnplus.com*, our
new project to address the challenges we faced with SVN before.
In our search for an svn solution for our own projects, we encountered
several common issues with existing tools:
• *Security*: We need a solution with strong security measures,
including robust two-factor authentication (TOTP support).
• *Web-based workflow*: It should be easy to review and comment
changes, track branches and merge them from a browser.
• *Automatic merges*: The system should enforce that only approved
changes, and all approved changes get to the trunk.
I think these are simple requirements, but the best solutions we've
found are half baked hacks.
svnplus.com aims to solve these: create an easy to self host, simple,
secure, open svn solution.
We'll create an open source system that meets our basic needs.
We'll provide a DigitalOcean marketplace image that uses existing,
simple, open solutions to the problems above.
After that's done we want to continue and implement secure, fast and
user friendly solutions to have modern easy to use workflows.
We also plan to build a small team to dive deep into old issues with svn
itself, like the fact I can't setup a usable TOTP solution today, or
that data is duplicated on our devices.
We plan to offer low cost managed solutions and enterprise support to
cover the costs.
We have time, money, talents and enthusiasm to seriously work on these
issues
As SVN users, your experience and insights are invaluable. I’d
appreciate your thoughts on the following:
• *Shared Challenges*: Do the issues mentioned above reflect the
challenges you face with SVN in your projects?
• *Hosting*: Would you be interested in a hosted solution that also
offers the option for self-hosting, giving you full control over your data?
• *Feature Wishlist*: Are there any additional features or improvements
you’d consider essential for a modern SVN system?
I'm happy to sign NDA and spend time understanding your issues, and I'm
open to be corrected, if these are all non-issues or solvable problems
but I've missed the solutions for them.
We think that in 2025 the version control landscape misses a good, fast,
reliable, simple to use centralized version control system that can
handle serious repository sizes and has good web support!
We want to build this!
If you agree, or if you don't, drop a reply, send a private email, lets
talk!
You can also show us your support by going to svnplus.com, and pushing
the heart icon in the top right corner.
We need your feedback, confirmation or just a conversation to know, this
project worth our time. We seriously think it is!
Best regards,
Peter
Founder, SVNPlus
