Hello, On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 10:39 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> wrote: > > Hello, all! > > It's been a long while since I interacted with any degree of regularity with > this community, and I've had to come to terms with some essential truths. > > First, my time as an active Subversion developer has *definitely* passed. > Oh, I may get a chance to return to it at some point in the (likely distant) > future, but without CollabNet commissioning my efforts here, I simply don't > have the extra cycles these days to offer. Given that my contributions over > the last few years can be measured in the smallest of numbers, this isn't > news to anyone here and certainly has no effect on the trajectory and > velocity of the project! > > Of greater concern to (at least) myself is that the cognitive distance I have > from Subversion these days -- combined with the craziness of just life as an > twice-employed[1], soccer-coaching, father of three -- means that the > Subversion book is getting next-to-zero attention, too. Oh, I'm still paying > attention to the work our translators are doing, and wordsmithing here and > there as concerns are raised. But the (as-yet-unfinished) trunk of the book > is still attached to Subversion 1.8, which means that this community has > pounded out all kinds of improvements whose documentation is mostly limited > to release notes and email threads. Put simply, the service that Ben and > Fitz (both looooong gone from contributing to the book at all) and I formerly > offered to the wider Subversion community has arguably now become a > disservice. > > I'm done telling myself that I can fix this by re-engaging and taking up > authorship again. That just isn't gonna happen. It's time to pass the torch > to someone else, and I would love to immediately begin tossing around some > ideas toward this end. > > To be clear, red-bean.com is happy to continue hosting the book's HTML/PDF > builds. The source lives at SourceForge these days, and I can grant commit > permissions (or transfer ownership) as needed. Moreover, there's no deadline > for maintainership handoff that I'm trying to impose or anything. I want to > do what's best for the Subversion ecosystem, whatever this community > determines that to be. > > Feel free to consider alternate approaches, too, such as conversion of the > book's content into a Wiki. But I would caution against doing anything that > discourages or complicates the workflow of the book's translators, especially > since they are the only ones actually doing anything in the project at all! > :-) > > So what do you think? > > -- Mike > > > [1] Beyond my regular CollabNet work week, I give additional hours as a > member of the staff of my local church.
A bit off-topic for this thread, but I want to say that I'd love SVNBook to move to SVN 1.10 version. There are several open milesone-1.8 tickets[1], though and 1.8 version needs a read-through before branching[2]. The progress is tracked here[3] and if - I'm not mistaken - the Step 3: Review Subcommands/Options can be considered Done. [1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/svnbook/tickets/milestone/en-1.8/?filter=%7B%22status%22%3A[%22New%22%2C%22Started%22]%7D [2]: https://www.red-bean.com/pipermail/svnbook-dev/2016-March/016318.html [3]: https://sourceforge.net/p/svnbook/wiki/SvnBook18Status/ -- With best regards, Pavel Lyalyakin VisualSVN Team
