A year ago the numbers were about reversed (we haven seen 3 windows signatures before unix). It really depends when the release is available for testing: in weekends and holidays there are other developers active than at the start of a businessweek.
The huge performance improvements in 1.7 (or the relative slowness of 1.6 as that was the slowest version on Windows) makes 1.6 uninteresting to my users. And on top of that there are the compatibility problems, that make building hard. I recently dropped serf support in the 1.6 builds on the buildbot to fix compilation. Switching Subversion to another buildsystem won’t help a bit. Building Subversion is still the easiest step of building Subversion on Windows. The dependencies are the real work and each of those has a different buildsystem. Currently none of those requires cmake, and switching trunk to cmake makes building older versions different from new ones. That by itself makes it even less likely that you receive signatures for those old versions. Bert *From:* Justin Erenkrantz <jus...@erenkrantz.com> *Sent:* January 9, 2013 4:36 AM *To:* Ben Reser <b...@reser.org> *CC:* Subversion Development <dev@subversion.apache.org> *Subject:* Re: Subversion & Windows On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Ben Reser <b...@reser.org> wrote: Given stefan2's argument I don't think it's unreasonable to lower the Windows votes, but I think removing them entirely is probably going too far. Given the fact that we repeatedly have trouble securing votes just for Windows, I think you are in the clear minority. =P -- justin
