Docker Svn build environment [was: Subversion's community health]

Paul Hammant wrote:
> Michael Pilato wrote:
>> Paul Hammant wrote:
>>> Nobody is going to roll up to contribute to 1.x or 2.x Subversion if
>>> there is no copy-pasteable instructions for building on Mac, Win and Linux.

>> Is there an opportunity here for someone to whip up a Dockerized
>> development environment for Subversion? Volume mapped to local disk for
>> easy editing of source code in your tool of choice, but all the
>> dependencies and such present in the image? Just thinking out loud here...
>
> Dockerized build templates would be great for a quickstart. I might have
> one or two for Svn and if I de-hack them might be shareable. They'd be
> biased towards Linux for build/test/standup of course, but would be
> better than nothing.

That would be awesome. It could remove the biggest barrier to entry for
many developers.

Docker is a good choice for this, and I am convinced we'll get the best
outcome if we pool our resources into supporting one way well, so count
me in.

- Julian
Received on 2019-06-19 10:29:06 CEST