Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 12:13:56AM -0400, Greg Stein wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 22:55, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >>> C. Michael Pilato wrote: >>> >>>> We need to find a way to embrace and >>>> empower would-be Subversion contributors. >>>> >>> You could start by replying to their mailing list posts. Just a thought. >>> > > Tim, could you provide a link to whichever post(s) you had in mind? > The lists have lots of traffic, and not everyone reads every post. > It's possible that your posts were simply overlooked or arrived at > a time where none of those reading your posts were able to reply. > Thanks. > > (In general, when referring to other posts made to the list, providing > a link to the archives is a very good idea...) >
That was my fourth post to this list, I was referring to the other three, particularly: <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201003.mbox/%3c4baa79df.9040...@wikimedia.org%3e> I could see that after being ignored on that issue, my only chance of being heard would be to get to know the developers and then to take a more personal approach. That's why I stayed on this list. Unfortunately I haven't had much time to read it. My problem is that Subversion is so slow, in terms of network round-trips, that's it's virtually unusable in our application for tasks like merging and annotating. Chia-liang Kao has done an awesome job of providing a local cache layer for Subversion in first SVK and now Pushmi. This would provide a good response to the many developers in our community who are agitating for a switch to Git, except that due to a minor deficit in Subversion itself, Pushmi is not usable for us. This could be corrected with a patch to Subversion, possibly as short as a few lines of code. I'm offerring to write the patch. The Pushmi solution could then be documented on our wiki page on this topic: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Making_Subversion_faster -- Tim Starling
