Re: SQL backend development intention

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 16:26, Jan Horak <horak.honza_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm writing first time to Subversion Mailing List with the aim of
> getting involved in the project. I will shortly present my intention:
>
> I'm studying at Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic, Europe)
> and I'm just starting to work on my dimploma thesis. The goal of the
> thesis is to design and implement an SQL backend for the Subversion
> (specificly MySQL).

This sounds great!

> As I've read some messages in the mailing list archive, there had been
> some attempts to implement this extension and I belive there are enough
> reasons to spend a time to do that. But as far as I know, nobody has got
> any satisfactory results yet.

A lot of people have talked about it over the years, but nobody has
really spent much time to *do* it.

I also seem to recall that a third-party has built a
proprietary/private backend against Oracle.

> If there is anybody, who has considered with this topic, I would very
> appreciate every relevant information - for example some existing
> materials, analyses, desings, parts of code, .. simply anything.

I think that you'll find a lot of interest, and people willing to
discuss the concept, provide suggestions, etc. I just doubt that
you'll find many willing to dig in on the coding (or it would have
been done by now).

> I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

If you're going to do this, then I'd suggest we create a branch for
you, and you work on it in the main repository. That would provide the
most review and feedback for your work.

Cheers,
-g

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Received on 2009-10-19 08:28:53 CEST