I just read, they really switched: Mindfarm ? Blog Archive ? bye CVS, long life SVN. Cool…
I've running Subversion at work for projects that “need” some kind of version control: our homepage, our MS Office templates, and (the biggest repository now) our LabVIEW tree! In case you don't know: LabVIEW is a graphical programming language (just “accepted” as programming language by freshmeat recently) mainly for measurement and automation. It's really nice but their files are binary, so subversion was the first choice when I looked for a version control a year ago which should be easy to install, easy to maintain, and easy to be integrated into our Windows 2000 domain. First it ran on our Windows 2000 domain server with an additional apache installed, but later I moved it to a Linux server. The authentication is done using mod_pam and nmbd (which autheniticates the user to the Windows 2000 domain server; there're no user logins on the Linux server needed, but one for me (as I'm root ;-)).
Even the updates to new database schemes worked flawlessly. ;-)
So now I'd want sourceforge to switch too. Or better at least two projects I'm checking out development code often: sylpheed-claws and gutenprint. It's so much easier to get changelogs out of the version control system for a check in (ok, the sylpheed-claws developers maintain a Changelog file very accurately—but the gutenprint people don't).
