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Re: Ending my RHEL backports support for Subversion

From: Paolo Di Pietro <pdipietro_at_diviana.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:33:25 +0200

I'm sad for your leave.

There are a lot of problems in the Sw Eng area, which should be
addressed to enable people to cooperate without being overkilled.

If we want the Open * to survive, we need to avoid fragmenting the
efforts, and try to converge them on single 'platforms'.

This is not an easy nor politically correct choice, but, One of this
should be, IMHO, the choice is between survival or not an entire large
group of people.

I should like to discuss how to build an 'OTT' approach to let users use
Subversion, or github, or whatever they like with a standard interface.

As I'm telling from Y2000, we should create ontologies to let the
content (and not the tools) to cooperate.

I'd like to talk with people about this.

Have a good luck!

Paolo

On 9/18/2016 2:34 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> I've been publishing backports of Subversion over at github.com for
> RHEL based operating systems for some years now. They used to be
> published at RPMForge while that was still active. And it was useful
> to me, and to some others, to get up-to-date releases on current or
> older operating systems, especially for the long-term RHEL based
> systems.
>
> Unfortunately, it's gotten too expensive for me to do. There are
> several factors. The big one is the updated requirements with each
> major release. Using more recent new technologies, like serf, and
> SQLite are understandable upstream changes, but it means integrating
> support for them for another set of RPM's for those components, and
> building up the support chains for tools like updated serf, multiplies
> the work and threatens other stable tools which might use serf. It's
> an old issue for many projects, but the return on investment of my
> time has pretty much evaporated with RPMforge defunct.
>
> I'm also afraid that the other big factor, for me, is the
> long-missing "obliterate" feature. The lack of any graceful way to
> clear inappropriately committed or discarded content has become the
> biggest reason *not* to use Subversion, and I can't burn my
> engineering time backporting software without a graceful way to clean
> up the inevitably bulky or security sensitive bad commit.

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