240450 - Assessment of viability of future subversion (SVN) replacement of CVS

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(mozilla.org :: Miscellaneous, task)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

This has been discussed in the past, but not in a while as far as I know. As of
yet, no bug has been created to assess its viability as a replacement for CVS. 

The FAQ for Subversion is located here:
http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html

Biggest issue is whether our current tools (such as mxr) can be made to work on
Subversion. There are many enhancements in Subversion such as a filesystem
emulation layer that would make writing tools easier, yet we might want to know
that for now these tools can be used with SVN's CVS emulation modules.

I know that moving to a new set up tools is not good when trying to close in on
the release another major version, so this might be something to look at after 2.0

Perhaps it'd be better to test SVN for the webtools trees and Gila since they
are not as active. Is it possible that people checking in could checkin to both
the CVS tree and an SVN test tree?

Comment 1

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Opened forum discussion http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=479634

Comment 2

[Mitchell Baker]

I can't imagine that we would try to change tools at this point.  Maybe when
we're fat with resources, or have some big problem that cant' be solved, or some
other factor drives us.  I don't see that now, so I am marking closed.  if you
want to reopen, please assign the bug to someone else, it's not a mozilla.org
priority now.

mitchell