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

[Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron,

Maybe there is a new business venture for you :-)

Trevor

On 6/24/08 9:30 AM, "Aaron Bartell" <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> > email: josulli4@xxxxxxx
> > Office: +44 1252 536681
> > Fax: +44 1252 534022
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