Hi,
I promised earlier today that I would introduce my self - so here goes.
I am 33 years old, and I live near Copenhagen in Denmark with my wife and
two kids.
I run the company "2-People Software" (yes - there are two people: my wife
and my self - but that has changed over the years :-) Our main area of
business is consultancy work (ie. programming) - but we also do some
web-design, and we have a small web-hotel.
As some of you have probably guessed I am working on (planning :-) a web
content management system in an attempt to move the business away from
consultancy by expanding the web related areas.
I was planning on making the new system in a closed source manner, and using
tools from Microsoft and Borland. But I needed a good version control
system, and I did not like the ones I could afford :-) So I looked on the
net and found Subversion some months ago. I had been planning to store
documents in a database, but when I saw Subversion it suddenly occurred to
me that what we developers do with source code is not that different from
what content writers would be doing with documents. A document needs to be
available in different versions, and the "transactions" will typically be
much longer that your average database transaction (days - even months).
I could use Subversion as the "database"! But how did this work in a closed
source project? I know the license allows me to use Subversion in this way -
but it just doesn't feel right :-) So I was going to go open source, and
started to look at alternatives to the other areas of the system. I have now
pretty much decided to use Subversion and Apache Cocoon on the server side.
On the client side I will be making a nice GUI in Java (which explains my
interest in the bindings :-)
I have been lurking on the dev list for a couple of months now, and I must
say that I like the way you are running the project. Now I feel that I want
to contribute a little, and at the same time make SVN more ammenable to my
needs :-)
BTW. This is the first time I will be actively participating in an open
source project - so please be gentle :-)
Well that's it really.
Regards,
Morten Ludvigsen
2-People Software
Denmark
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Received on Fri Oct 18 00:45:00 2002