Lessons for the ASF from April 1stLessons for the ASF from April 1st

Or what we can learn from all those tweets about SVN and Git

Or what we can learn from all those tweets about SVN and Git

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7508305

Well, despite the initial "haha" reaction, I feel bad for the Subversion project team for all of the attention/politics they're going to get from this.

As you can see on the ticket, they'll already getting the usual Apache internal politics of "that's not how we did it in the 90s!" reaction to any infrastructure/tool changes.

And, with showing up on HN, they'll likely have everyone snickering at how Subversion is so obviously inferior to git that even their own dev team doesn't use it anymore.

When really they're just trying to do their job, with the tools that work best for their situation. (I assume, I have no internal knowledge of their decision, I'm just assuming good intentions.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7508305

Obviously Subversion is important from a historical perspective, there are so many repositories out there will need to be supported for some time, but it does seem like a flawed enterprise to keep actively developing Subversion. Wouldn't that time be better spent on a platform that's viable, like git, Mercurial, or some other experimental platform that might make a big breakthrough?

Everyone's bailing on that project, including Subversion itself. Isn't that a sign you should, you know, move on?