Re: Subversion Vision and Roadmap Proposal

Hyrum,

On Saturday 10 April 2010 03:24:27 pm Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> > Even CVS had the ability to (a) customize keyword expansion and (b)
> > provide custom log message templates. These features, as far as I
> > remember, were first
> > targeted as "pre-1.0" and are postponed ever since.
>
> Well, this feature has only been postponed because nobody has written it
> yet. Many of us would welcome patches which implement this, would you like
> to work on it? (Or, alternatively, provide development resources within
> your organization to help make this feature a reality?)

Have you looked at issue #890?

1. It has patches for the first step in implementing this feature (well,
against Subversion 1.2.0). There is no response as to whether these patches
have been rejected (and the reason why), or they are plainly ignored.

2. In the same issue, there is a reference to keyword substitution
implementation used by FreeBSD. Again, no further description as to why this
implementation was not acceptable, etc.

Given these two examples, I am somewhat afraid to invest my time into learning
Subversion internals and coming up with such changes only to have them rot in
the issue tracker indefinitely.

Best regards,
Alexey.
Received on 2010-04-11 08:38:57 CEST