Re: another application

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 12:15:34PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:

> I'm just pointing out that there's enough immediately useful
> functionality right there, already, to stabilize, declare 1.0, and
> thus hopefully increase the user community size

I have thought about something that I've never seen mentionned here
since I read this ML : I think SVN will really gain popularity the day
"public" svn repositories are available on the net. There are dozens
of community websites, ranging from dinosaur SF.Net to small french
TuxFamily.Org.

They all provide disk space, mailing lists *and* CVS.

I can hardly imagine that SVN will truly be accepted as CVS successor
as long as most of these community websites keep using CVS. I think
they will, at least at the beginning, because, whatever you say, it
still involves some work to migrate to SVN (not to mention
SourceForge-sized examples, fortunately they are few).

Now, why not ask the admins of those community website what they think
about SVN, whether they plan to switch to another SCM, and if not,
why, and what could be done to make them switch.

Yes, these CVS repositories are only the tip of the iceberg, and there
are plenty of "private" repositories everywhere. But I can say that if
I hadn't used CVS on SF, maybe I wouldn't use CVS on my own
either. Therefore, these big, well-known websites could be a very good
"advertisement" for SVN.

"Oh, look, they have switched to a new, possibly better SCM, let's try
it !".

Even future commercial uses of SVN in private companies might start
from right here.

So is there any "plans" about this issue ?

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