Re: Svn server images / appliances / packages

Summarizing this thread so far...

There is broadly some agreement that a Docker setup wouldn't be a bad
idea; no other options stood out as being worth our attention; some
concern about whether "we" can maintain anything "we" do; some
opportunities for engaging with externally published solutions.

Responses to feedback...

Paul Hammant wrote:
> Here's one for AWS - https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/Bitnami-Subversion-Certified-by-Bitnami/B00NN8NOAE

That one does look like a good, enterprise-grade, maintained offering.

That's the sort of thing I'm looking for. Thanks.

> - but it does't meet your at home requirement.

There's no specific "at home" requirement, although that's always nice
to have for FOSS. In this thread my concern is that there should be a
practical option for people wanting or needing to run a server for
serious use, above hobbyist level and below enterprise (plentiful IT
resources) level. Solutions that run on paid cloud hosting can be
within scope if anybody wants to provide and maintain them.

Mark Phippard wrote:
> I do not think we should do it as I do not believe we are willing to hang with it and support it.

We'll see. It doesn't have to be the traditional "us" that is willing
to support it: I would be happy to see something supported by a
commercial vendor such as the Bitnami one above.

In fact the best way to achieve the goal might be to encourage outsiders
to do it. For example, we could contribute improvements to one of the
existing, independently published Docker scripts. That is a valid and
maybe better alternative to asking volunteers to bring their
contributions "here".

Brane wrote:
> [...] "no binary packages" policy [...]

There is not a "no binary packages" policy; I addressed this with a
footnote in my original email. Specifically, ASF policy says a project
MAY distribute binaries:

http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#compiled-packages

Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> There's an official https://hub.docker.com/u/apache.

I would prefer a docker repository at apache.org -- owning our own
identity -- but pragmatically we'll go with what the ASF already has, if
we publish something ourself. Thanks for the link.

- Julian
Received on 2020-01-08 12:53:54 CET