On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:48, Mike Mason wrote:
> - pedigree. Of the main developers I see floating around, I definitely
> know who Karl Fogel is, because his CVS book is sat on my desk at work.
> Anyone else mind name dropping themselves and why they know what they're
> talking about?
More name drops? Jim Blandy was an original designer of Subversion. He
and Karl Fogel co-founded Cyclic software, one of the earliest CVS
support companies. Jim now supports the GNU toolchain (gdb and friends)
full time. Greg Stein, another SVN designer, wrote mod_dav for Apache,
which is widely used in both open-source and commercial WebDAV software
now. We also have a bunch of core Apache people working on Subversion.
> - maturity. We're not at 1.0 yet, and a whole bunch of folks won't even
> look at something until it's 1.0. I've used it since 0.30 and not had
> any problems, but that's (unfortunately) not much of an argument. Are we
> in beta, even?
We were in Alpha for about 15 months, entered Beta recently, and are
planning to hit 1.0 in February. See the 'status' page on the website.
> - tools. Another kinda-1.0 thing. I stuck with the command line client
> because I'm a l33t h4x0r d00d, but there are some less elite folk out
> there who like/need GUIs. TortoiseSVN, great. Subclipse, great idea, is
> that actively being maintained?
TortoiseSVN is very popular. Subclipse is getting there. Both are
active projects.
> Needs recompiling when a new Subversion
> comes out.
Eventually, yes. Many folks have held off writing 3rd-party apps,
because they're waiting for a completely stable 1.0 API.
> So it's much
> easier for someone to say "no, don't do anything, too risky" than to
> actually make a migration plan and figure out if it's doable and how
> much risk we're talking about.
Find a smallish project in your company, and do a "pilot" test of
Subversion. See how it works out.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Mon Jan 12 22:26:39 2004