On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 2:57 PM Daniel Sahlberg <daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > As you all probably know Subversion was initially started by CollabNet and > several high profile committers have worked there (and some still do). > However the company's interest in Subversion has decreased over the years > with several important domains slipping into the digital graveyard. > > Our page of binary packages [1] links to > https://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/linux.html and > https://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/ > > On May 8th the SSL certificate associated with https://www.collab.net > expired. Even if accepting the expired certificate (or connecting without > encryption) the links above redirect to https://digital.ai and I can't > find any traces of Subversion-related downloads. > > In [2] we decided that a link should allow downloading a "current" > release. The links does not fullfil this requirement. > > Considering the above, I'm proposing (with a great deal of sadness) that > we remove the links to Collab.net. If someone know if Digital.AI still > provide downloads at an updated URL we can update the links. > That is sad, indeed. Looking through digital.ai, I saw mention that both Subversion and Git are supported (see [1], for example), however I couldn't find download links to new or historical releases. Perhaps that is deliberate, perhaps that is an oversight. Hopefully someone with the right connections can find out. Until then, I agree that the broken links should be removed. We can always reinstate them (or their replacements). [1] https://digital.ai/products/teamforge/ Cheers Nathan
