+1 ps: I used to think that authentication was the main reason of having several repos.
On Jan 30, 2008 12:04 PM, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > We need to decide if we want to have a single SVN repository or > several. Right now we have 4: > - main xwiki: XE, XEM, Watch, Curriki > - chronopolys > - xwiki workspaces > - sandbox > > I prefer to have a single one for the following reasons: > > 1) Simpler Admin > 2) Consolidate history > 3) Ability to move sources from one project to another. For example > the fact the sandbox is in a separate repo is a real pain since it's > not possible to perform a svn move so we loose the history when we > move things around > 4) Complex to configure. You have to configure all your tools to point > to several repos (IDE, etc) > 5) Hard to configure external tools and no consolidated search, > stats,etc. For example: ohloh, sourcekibitzer > > Note that Apache has a single repo for all its projects so it's not > like this is something that is weird and that hasn't been done before. > > To be honest I don't see a single advantage to have several repos. > > However we would need to configure the SVN hooks to send svn commit > emails to different mailing lists and do the user authentication based > on *.xwiki.org mapped to directories in SVN, but that's not a problem. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
