On 24/10/2007, George Stein <george.stein@go4more.de> wrote:
>
> Ron,
>
> On 10/22/07, Ron Wilson wrote:
> > On 10/22/07, George Stein <george.stein@go4more.de> wrote:
> > > We would like to implement simple life cycles with Subversion. Our
> > > first idea was to use properties. To support this conveniently we
> > > would like to see them in the Repo-Browser as additional columns.
> >
> > I have thought on this myself many times over the past several months.
> >
> > Seems to me that this would require user defined "Revision Properties"
> > (aka "Transaction Properties") to be supported in SVN itself.
> > Unfortunately, AFIAK, user defined revision properties are not
> > supported.
> >
> > To my thinking, this is required because each revision would have its
> > own life cycle: When Commited, the life cyc state would be
> > "Development". Later, the state of a given revision could be advanced
> > as it progresses through the various integration, testing and QA
> > procedures.
> >
> > If you used ordinary SVN properties, you would be affecting the
> > "forward" state - ie, each state change would be a new revision in
> > itself. This could work if you could live with tracking life cycle ona
> > branch-by-branch basis. Example: Development team makes a release into
> > a new branch. Then the branch's life cycle state could be updated
> > without affecting the main development (on the trunk and/or other
> > banches) or even other release branches.
>
> But then you would have transaction based properties. In our case we
> would prefer to define properties on directories or even files. Thus
> we could distinguish between separate life cycles in one project
> independent from the transactions.
> To track down the different life cycles in time it would be even
> necessary to create new revisions. So this would argue for ordinary
> properties.
Stefan,
Is it possible to display custom properties in the repo browser (not
needed in explorer)? The repo browser always has delays anyway, so
adding more user-defined delays would not be that noticeable. Also,
hasn't subversion improved the property access in 1.5?
Simon
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Received on Wed Oct 24 17:16:53 2007