Hi folks, This is the kind of email I hate to have to write. We're facing some urgency on a rather important issue: Savannah has been down for two days now, and we're going to have to make some quick decisions to avoid losing any more work time. This also comes at a point in time when we've decided to pick a new version control system to replace CVS. I caught paul/hdl this morning, and we feel a move to SVN with hosting from Google is the best solution: http://code.google.com/hosting/ Here are the likely questions, and our answers: Q: why SVN and not git, arch, etc.? A: while a distributed repository makes good sense in theory, we fear that it will be a barrier to entry for new library software developers and we'll end up spending a disproportionate amount of time teaching and managing version control Q: why not host a SVN repo at koha.org or koha-fr.org? A: we're software developers, not proper sys admins, and at this point in our community development it's not fair to place the burden of managing the repo on any one development team. Q: why google instead of gna.org, etc. A: hosting at a project like gna.org, could result in the same situation we're in now in a few months. With Google, we get a Subversion implementation backed by Google's massively scalable, highly available storage technology, and some of the best sys admins in the world. Q: what about licensing? A: Google is acting as a code repository, they are not assuming copyright on the code, or changing the license. We're sticking with GPL version 2 or greater. Any questions, see Google's Terms of Use: http://code.google.com/tos.html Q: What about losing all our version history? A: A move to Google will mean we'll lose our version history, that's true. Personally, I can't imagine we'd want to roll back any of the code in either rel_2_2, dev_week or head. I'd like to arrive at a concensus today about this issue if at all possible, so we can get back to work ... so please send your comments/suggestions/flames asap. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS