Re: 20th anniversary press?

Folks:

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 9:21 AM Nathan Hartman <hartman.nathan_at_gmail.com>
wrote:

> Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> >
> > We're coming up on the 20th anniversary of the first commit to
> > Subversion's CVS repository:
> >
> > [[[
> > % svn log ^/subversion -r 0:HEAD -l 3 | vipe
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > r836421 | kfogel | 2000-02-29 20:32:07 -0600 (Tue, 29 Feb 2000) | 2 lines
> > Changed paths:
> > A /subversion/trunk/src
> > A /subversion/trunk/src/LICENSE
> >
> > initial checkin
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > % ]]]
> >
> > Sounds like an excuse to do a press release? Or something to mention in
> > the announcement of 1.14.0-LTS, at least?
>
> It's super cool that Subversion's birthday is Leap Day 2000. [1]
>

That's amazing! First commit on a leap day?! Cool.

> I think it's a great idea to celebrate with a press release.
>

Let me know if WANdisco can help the celebration in any way.

Cheers.

Doug

>
> Let me know how I can help.
>
>
> [1] That day is cool for a variety of reasons. It's the year 2000. It
> has a leap day, contrary to most years divisible by 100 (because it's
> also divisible by 400 [2]). And it's the birthday of the best version
> control system ever!
>
> [2] https://www.timeanddate.com/date/leapyear.html
>
> Nathan
>

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