SVN Round Table Live Blog
Below is a transcript of my live blog from the Subversion Round Table discussion.
Live Blog Transcript
svnsummit: announcement about svn corporation. if you want to sponsor svn devs, send money to treasurer@subversion.org - http://www.subversion.org/ svnsummit's status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-08 18:33:05 UTC
svnsummit: a: dangerous feature - has legal repercussions svnsummit's status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-08 18:29:03 UTC
svnsummit: a: cmpilato: no single issue has more requests. known from day 1. design proposed but not yet implemented svnsummit's status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-08 18:28:17 UTC
svnsummit: q: sometimes we need ot delete revisions completely... svnsummit's status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-08 18:27:20 UTC
svnsummit: a: ah, there's a good reason for that - it's stupid. audience member misses CVS functionality svnsummit's status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-08 18:25:37 UTC
svnsummit: q: wants comments to be included in actual text file svnsummit's status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-08 18:24:40 UTC
svnsummit: a: what are you talking about? 10/14/2008 11:24 AM
svnsummit: q: problem with differences in svn client settings 10/14/2008 11:23 AM
svnsummit: a: that's why we don't make binaries on tigris 10/14/2008 11:21 AM
svnsummit: q: problems with how svn i spackaged by various vendors. all use different dependencies, eg. python 2.4 vs. 2.5 10/14/2008 11:21 AM
svnsummit: 1 person dl's and compiles sources from tigris.org :) 10/14/2008 11:18 AM
svnsummit: markphip: hasn't been a problem 10/14/2008 11:14 AM
svnsummit: a: but eg. tortoise svn was released within 24 hours of latest svn release 10/14/2008 11:14 AM
svnsummit: a: there's no concerted effort around standardized releases 10/14/2008 11:13 AM
svnsummit: q: related svn projects. maybe do concerted releases with svn *and* related projects ot make sure all work together? 10/14/2008 11:12 AM
svnsummit: q: not upgrading to 1.5 because don't like state of merge tracking in 1.5 10/14/2008 11:11 AM
svnsummit: survey q: about half of audience use svn 1.5 10/14/2008 11:10 AM
svnsummit: a: some devs looking at how to use existing sessions more efficiently 10/14/2008 11:09 AM
svnsummit: a: if you hit apache max requests, will lose credentials cache and ask for new auth 10/14/2008 11:09 AM
svnsummit: OH: "it's not our bug!" 10/14/2008 11:07 AM
svnsummit: q: if you auth against mod_sspi - asked to auth again and again 10/14/2008 11:07 AM
svnsummit: cmpilato: apache sspi module ccan also be used to normalize to case. not sure about ldap 10/14/2008 11:05 AM
svnsummit: a: use 1.5 - fix checked in for recent releases - might be in trunk; have to add apache directive 10/14/2008 11:04 AM
svnsummit: q: AD for auth and problem with lower and upper case 10/14/2008 11:03 AM
svnsummit: cmpilato: can also use svk for private commits 10/14/2008 10:59 AM
svnsummit: a: svn adoption is social as much as technical. high-level workshops on branching and merging are more popular than more technical ones 10/14/2008 10:58 AM
svnsummit: cmpilato: we can't solve your social problems :) making branches is cheap and easily deleted 10/14/2008 10:56 AM
svnsummit: gstein: most of this work to appear in 1.7 10/14/2008 10:54 AM
svnsummit: a: gstein: hoping with working copy rewrite can fix these issues 10/14/2008 10:53 AM
svnsummit: q: svn user; private checkins - multiple checkins to do tests - but don't want overhead of private branches 10/14/2008 10:52 AM
svnsummit: a: from audience - use https 10/14/2008 10:50 AM
svnsummit: q: want to remove authentication from apache. apache always pinged for access to each dir in repo 10/14/2008 10:50 AM
svnsummit: q: want to remove authentication from apache. apache always pinged for access to each dir in repo 10/14/2008 10:49 AM
svnsummit: a: uh... you talkin' about aiuthorization or authentication? 10/14/2008 10:48 AM
svnsummit: q another auth question: have to change password every 30 days? difficulty caching ldap password and svn doens't recognize when it changes 10/14/2008 10:47 AM
svnsummit: a few others in audience second issue of access - want to make tags read-only 10/14/2008 10:46 AM
svnsummit: q: (follow-up) in cases of closed source, need to restrict read-access for IP reasons 10/14/2008 10:45 AM
svnsummit: cmpilato: have had requests for acl's directlyin repo layer. no one actively working on this, but good ot hear it's an issue 10/14/2008 10:43 AM
svnsummit: a: cmpilato - collabnet wrote custom apache module to do regex for path-based authorization 10/14/2008 10:42 AM
svnsummit: q: hook scripts inadequate. a: solution not yet there. branching exposes private dirs 10/14/2008 10:41 AM
svnsummit: q: what about regex config applying acl auth to path globs 10/14/2008 10:39 AM
svnsummit: q: could be better authorization system, better acl-based access for particular groups and/or people - even for ro access 10/14/2008 10:39 AM
svnsummit: q: what are some of hte show-stoppers preventing use 10/14/2008 10:38 AM
svnsummit: q & a: inherited props and enforced repo configs. merge tracking could help solve but not yet 10/14/2008 10:34 AM
survey q: about half of audience use svn 1.5 about 16 hours ago from web → ×
a: some devs looking at how to use existing sessions more efficiently about 16 hours ago from web → ×
a: if you hit apache max requests, will lose credentials cache and ask for new auth about 16 hours ago from web → ×
OH: "it's not our bug!" about 16 hours ago from web → ×
q: if you auth against mod_sspi - asked to auth again and again about 16 hours ago from web → ×
cmpilato: apache sspi module ccan also be used to normalize to case. not sure about ldap about 16 hours ago from web → ×
a: use 1.5 - fix checked in for recent releases - might be in trunk; have to add apache directive about 16 hours ago from web → ×
q: AD for auth and problem with lower and upper case about 16 hours ago from web
cmpilato: can also use svk for private commits about 16 hours ago from web → ×
a: svn adoption is social as much as technical. high-level workshops on branching and merging are more popular than more technical ones about 16 hours ago from web → ×
cmpilato: we can't solve your social problems :) making branches is cheap and easily deleted about 16 hours ago from web → ×
gstein: most of this work to appear in 1.7 about 16 hours ago from web → ×
a: gstein: hoping with working copy rewrite can fix these issues about 16 hours ago from web → ×
q: svn user; private checkins - multiple checkins to do tests - but don't want overhead of private branches about 16 hours ago from web → ×
a: from audience - use https about 16 hours ago from web → ×
q: want to remove authentication from apache. apache always pinged for access to each dir in repo about 16 hours ago from web → ×
q: want to remove authentication from apache. apache always pinged for access to each dir in repo about 16 hours ago from web → ×
a: uh... you talkin' about authorization or authentication? about 16 hours ago from web → ×
q another auth question: have to change password every 30 days? difficulty caching ldap password and svn doens't recognize when it changes about 16 hours ago from web → ×
a few others in audience second issue of access - want to make tags read-only about 16 hours ago from web → ×
q: (follow-up) in cases of closed source, need to restrict read-access for IP reasons about 16 hours ago from web → ×
cmpilato: have had requests for acl's directlyin repo layer. no one actively working on this, but good ot hear it's an issue about 16 hours ago from web → ×
a: cmpilato - collabnet wrote custom apache module to do regex for path-based authorization about 16 hours ago from web → ×
q: hook scripts inadequate. a: solution not yet there. branching exposes private dirs about 16 hours ago from web → ×
q: what about regex config applying acl auth to path globs about 16 hours ago from web → ×
q: could be better authorization system, better acl-based access for particular groups and/or people - even for ro access about 16 hours ago from web → ×
q: what are some of hte show-stoppers preventing use about 16 hours ago from web → ×
q & a: inherited props and enforced repo configs. merge tracking could help solve but not yet about 16 hours ago from web → ×
talk scheduled on thursday at 3pm about tree conflicts and possible solutions about 17 hours ago from web → ×
a: some tree conflict fixes ready in 1.6. if file has been deleted and someone edits, that will be flagged and commit not allowed about 17 hours ago from web → ×
Q: nico (trumerge guy) one thing missing - tree conflicts. what's the roadmap? about 17 hours ago from web → ×
nico: trumerge could be extended to solve issue of determining file state bidirectionally about 17 hours ago from web → ×
cmpilato: we recognize the problem. working on it! question about trumerge about 17 hours ago from web → ×
q: where might copies of files or version of files live? A: backend only tracks changes in one direction. impossible to know file successors about 17 hours ago from web → ×
question: (just a comment) "thank you for the great product" awww... about 17 hours ago from web → ×
roundtable is starting - 12 svn developers talking about the state of subversion about 17 hours ago from web → ×
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