Re: Public Hosting

"Brian Topping" <topping@bill2.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> It's been about a year since I saw any question of "public hosting" using SVN
> (i.e. java.net, sf.net) and I was wondering if there are new options besides
> DIY.

I don't know of any public hosting service. Sourceforge has said
they'll support svn someday, when it's 1.0. But that's all I've heard.

> I noticed that java.net was being run by CollabNet, and was surprised and sad
> that they didn't use SVN.

CollabNet isn't in the business of setting up public hosting services.
CollabNet gets paid millions by companies like Sun for licensing &
hosting sites like java.net, netbeans.org, and openoffice.org. :-)

> Did they start it so long ago that it was impractical to use SVN in
> it's then-current state? I can understand if they were nervous
> about people people's unfamiliarity causing adoption problems, but
> it's still sad.

CollabNet's open-source platform, SourceCast, isn't yet using
Subversion in production. It's still an experimental integration in
the latest version of SourceCast, but will be "mainstream" in the next
major SourceCast release. That's the reason you don't see Subversion
running on the java.net site... not because "people are nervous".

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Received on Mon Jul 7 14:44:57 2003