Re: another application

On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 08:41:48AM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
>
> > I think SVN will really gain popularity the day "public" svn
> > repositories are available on the net.
>
> That's a very hard goal. I don't think it should be a 1.0 goal to
> prepare for that deployment. Here's some reasons why:

I believe that 1.0 is targeted for exactly that kind of high capacity
deployment. If people simply want a "workgroup size" capable version of
Subversion, then they can use an Alpha or a Beta release. It is more than
stable enough for those kinds of deployments (as evidenced on our new "who
is using SVN pages).

As I said before, if you have a bunch of ideas that you'd like to build on
top of SVN, there is nothing stopping you from doing so *today*. There isn't
much of a need to "wait" for a 1.0 release to begin your work.

Note that when we hit Beta, we'll probably branch Subversion at that point.
The branch will shoot for the 1.0 release, while the trunk will "open up" to
the post-1.0 work. The exact timing of the branch will be up for grabs, but
it probably should happen around then. The very notion of Beta, in our book,
implies serious stability. I can't see holding up a billion ideas while we
eke out the last teeny bugs. The balance, though, is distracting people with
the post-1.0 trunk, such that the beta bugs aren't removed. We'll see how it
goes.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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