Subversion and me
I am in the midst of learning Subversion (SVN). I have successfully configured an Ubuntu 9.10 Rackspace Cloud Server with Apache, MySQL, PHP & SVN. At it’s current state I have to manually create new repositories, groups and users. It is nothing more than a simple SVN server. Now that SVN is running with no issues I have been working on writing bash scripts that I call with PHP to run the processes from the user input. The goal here is to create a simple administrative interface so I don’t have to keep adding stuff by hand.
Another issue I will be dealing with scalability i.g. unlimited project admins (accounts) who are limited in total disk space (by the SVN admin based on their “plan”) who have the ability to create unlimited repositories, with unlimited users and the ability to grant those users r-w-rw access to their repositories. Think hosted SVN service, except for my own personal use.
I also need to work in some sort of web based issue tracking / project management. I hate Trac, it’s ugly that’s why… It does diffs amazingly but the issue tracking / project management side is lacking, clunky and over technical for the average user. I find most everything else to disjointed, incomplete or utter crap.
I have tried WebSVN which is useful for a simple way to show diffs in file versions but not really much else, maybe I can hack this for administrative purposes. Or maybe just learn from it’s code and apply it the way I see it. Who knows where this project will take me…
