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| Subversion (SVN) Roadmap and Vision Update |
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On 2nd April 2010, five of the key developers behind Subversion posted the results of a working conference they held in New York City. C. Michael Pilato, Hyrum Wright, Greg Stein, Stefan Sperling, and Karl Fogel met up to address concerns about stagnation in the Subversion Project and to define and clearly communicate their vision for the project going forward. "Enterprise-class centralized version control for the masses" The posting on the Subversion mailing list is the outcome of that meeting, note this posting was for discussion and subject to further change: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-04/0047.shtml One of the top level statements is that Subversion will not become a Distributed Version Control System (DVCS). This addresses speculation based on the rapid growth of Git and Mercurial and the perceived trend for migration from Subversion to these tools. They state categorically that Subversion has no future as a DVCS and site some compelling reasons for this. Namely, the aforementioned tools fill this space already and a third would add little value, but more importantly there is a clear need for the centralized, control model that Subversion does so well. The Roadmap lists expected improvements in merging and tree conflict handling and some new features such as checkpointing or shelving. Most changes are dependent on an improved Working Copy and rationalising of the Repository Filesystem, both of which will see improved performance. Clearvision provide Subversion training, subversion consulting, subversion support and subversion products including our Subversion Agile Application Lifecycle Management solution UCM4SVN and the JIRA integration product JIRA2SVN |
