private repo in svn questions...

[David Jencks]

In order to get the build to work with my use of nexus I've added the  
trunk svn repo (server/trunk/repository) to the nexus repositories.

This makes me wonder if we should just set up a single repo in svn and  
put all our private builds there rather than having branch-specific  
repos.  Would this result in more or less or the same load on the svn  
server?

I also wonder if our policy of patching apache projects and coming up  
with our own psuedo releases is really the best idea or if we should  
just copy their code over in svn and build it more directly.


I also discovered a couple of weeks back that the lack of poms in this  
repo was causing significant build delays while maven was looking  
everywhere it could think of for them so I added them when I could  
easily find them in the artifacts.  I think we should add them for the  
other artifacts as well.

thanks
david jencks