Re: Creating SVN repositories

[Luca Cavalli <luca cavalli gmail com>]

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 09:36 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 15:29 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just got pointed to this:  http://live.gnome.org/NewSVNRepos
> > 
> > ... and it looks rather bureaucratic.
> > 
> > Back in the days of cvs.gnome.org, anyone with an account (already a
> > trusted member of the GNOME community) could create a new project on the
> > CVS server.  People kept little pet projects there; sometimes they
> > turned into real contributions to GNOME, and sometimes they remained as
> > little pet projects.  In either case, it was polite of GNOME to let
> > contributors use our services freely, since they are already feeding
> > code to the project at large.
> > 
> > Is it possible to remove the step of "ask the sysadmins to create a
> > repository for you"?  Can we simply give people some guidelines on how
> > to create the branches/trunk/tags directories?
> 
> Something I'd thought about before was having a separate SVN
> server where people could just put whatever they want.  Call
> it users.gnome.org or something, and give everybody who has
> a gnome.org account their own repo on it.  So then I'd have
> svn+ssh://svn.gnome.org/svn/shaunm/
> 

This would be a great idea. Too many interesting projects are doomed to
die on developers hard disks due to lack of time or interest.

Luca