Re: Subversion 1.5 Issue Triage

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Mark Phippard wrote:
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> These need to be completed before we can release
> 695 DEFECT P2 "svn checkout -N" should actually work.

How does this play out with notes/sparse-directories.txt?

> 2776 DEFECT P2 'svn cp' chokes on pegrev

This is a "merge-tracking" item, because Merge Tracking caused a
regression here. This should be basically trivial for anyone
comfortable with a debugger to fix (it's already marked "bite-sized").

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> These seem reasonably easy if someone wants to just get them done:
> 2738 PATCH P3 Define a "base" attribute for <index> in the browser xml

This one has a small, concise patch sitting in it. Easy pickings!

> 2762 DEFECT P3 svn-ref.tex is extremely out of date (pre-1.0)

I nuked svn-ref.tex (closing this issue), but if someone feels like
resurrecting the quickref card and bringing it up to date instead, +1.

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> This one I am not sure about
> 2715 DEFECT P2 Recursion of copy_source_ops() causes stack
> overflow in Apache

This is a potential DOS that should be fixed (likely using the
suggested approach in the issue).

> This one would be great to have, but it seems late in the game and no
> one has picked it up. I propose the milestone be changed to 1.6
> 1336 FEATURE P3 svn:externals should allow relative paths

Yup, let's push it. Would've been a great one to have, though.

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> Finally, based on the previous thread on this, it seems like there
> could easily be another dozen or so issues that ought to be entered
> for the various "loose ends" that need to be addresed before we
> release.

We really need to finish up this list to get a more accurrate bead on
how far off we stand from the finish line.