Re: Subversion 1.5 - Where is i5/OS support?

["Aaron Bartell" <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

What an interesting choice for Softlanding to make.  Afterall, if you are
looking to make money off of support it would seem that porting the latest
version would be the best place to keep customers coming back.

Maybe it is time for somebody else to step in and make some money off of
supporting Subversion for the IBM i platform :-)  Which begs the question,
what would people pay to get a precompiled IBM i version of latest versions
of Subversion and email support - $500/yr?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com


On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 7:52 AM, James O'Sullivan <josulli4@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Aaron,
>      we have been running with Subversion on our System i for a few years
> now. Works quite happily on V5R4.
>
> When V6R1 was first mentioned, I fired off an email to Softlanding about
> future support and got an initial response that a V6R1 version would be
> released and they would contact Collabnet about changing the "No active
> Maintainer" message. Several months later, I enquired again as the message
> has not been changed and got this response  on 17th April
>
> "Our primary focus is supporting TurnOverSVN and any changes we make for
> that may also be incorporated into Subversion for i if they apply. We won't
> be committing ourselves to being the sole maintainer of the open source
> package, but we will contribute when we can."
>
> So I guess there is scope for someone to carry the torch, if they have time
> and resources.
>
> regards
>
>
> James O'Sullivan
> Senior Technical Consultant
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