Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 12:13:56AM -0400, Greg Stein wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 22:55, Tim Starling <tstarling_at_wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>>
>>>> We need to find a way to embrace and
>>>> empower would-be Subversion contributors.
>>>>
>>> You could start by replying to their mailing list posts. Just a thought.
>>>
>
> Tim, could you provide a link to whichever post(s) you had in mind?
> The lists have lots of traffic, and not everyone reads every post.
> It's possible that your posts were simply overlooked or arrived at
> a time where none of those reading your posts were able to reply.
> Thanks.
>
> (In general, when referring to other posts made to the list, providing
> a link to the archives is a very good idea...)
>
That was my fourth post to this list, I was referring to the other
three, particularly:
<http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201003.mbox/%3C4BAA79DF.9040506@wikimedia.org%3E>
I could see that after being ignored on that issue, my only chance of
being heard would be to get to know the developers and then to take a
more personal approach. That's why I stayed on this list. Unfortunately
I haven't had much time to read it.
My problem is that Subversion is so slow, in terms of network
round-trips, that's it's virtually unusable in our application for tasks
like merging and annotating. Chia-liang Kao has done an awesome job of
providing a local cache layer for Subversion in first SVK and now
Pushmi. This would provide a good response to the many developers in our
community who are agitating for a switch to Git, except that due to a
minor deficit in Subversion itself, Pushmi is not usable for us. This
could be corrected with a patch to Subversion, possibly as short as a
few lines of code. I'm offerring to write the patch.
The Pushmi solution could then be documented on our wiki page on this topic:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Making_Subversion_faster
-- Tim Starling
Received on 2010-04-09 13:55:00 CEST