[Biojava-dev] Subversion

[Thomas Down]

On 27 Sep 2004, at 02:24, mark.schreiber at group.novartis.com wrote:

> While I'm in a ranting mood,
>
> What do people think about moving our CVS base to subversion?? The 
> webDAV
> protocol seems a lot nicer than CVS. Particularly where firewalls are
> involved.

Well, I've been using subversion pretty much daily for the last few 
months, and am extremely happy with it, so I'd definitely be pleased to 
see another project come over to the light side :-).  [I'm also now 
pretty comfortable with setting up and administering svn repositories]. 
  I guess the issues to look at right away would be:

      - Is everyone comfortable with it?  Probably anyone who's made any 
active contribution to biojava within the last year (maybe more) should 
have a right of veto on this.   (I would add that the svn command line 
acts a lot like CVS, so switching really isn't going to be painful for 
more users)

      - Where do we host it?

      - Do we try to do a full CVS->SVN repository conversion, trying to 
preserve all the history (scripts exist for this, but I've never tried 
them so can't comment on how well they'll handle an old and complex 
repository -- anyone out there who has?), or just do a clean import of 
the biojava-live trunk into a fresh SVN repository.

Anyone else got thoughts on this?

For anyone who's undecided but wants to give subversion a spin, I'm 
happy to set you up with a playground repository on my server.

              Thomas