Hi all,

For those of you not on inkscape-devel, note that we've just this morning switched over from using CVS to using Subversion (SVN) for source code management.

For those of you not already highly familiar with CVS, you should probably find Subversion a tad easier.

On the other hand, if you're familiar with CVS already but haven't tried Subversion before, you'll have a bit of retraining to do, but subversion is similar enough to cvs that you shouldn't find it to be too difficult.

Whichever case, you'll see several benefits to this change. With CVS, anonymous CVS checkouts were always delayed by an hour or more, but subversion will allow completely synchronized access. I suspect performance will also be a LOT better than with CVS. The web viewer is also a bit better.

There is a potential cost to this change, beyond the work we each have to do to adapt. This is an experimental service from SF, which means we can expect there may be some occassional outages or other temporary issues; SourceForge promises to be responsive to reports of issues, so please report issues to them. However, the value of switching to subversion is felt to be well worth this risk, so hopefully things will go smoothly and we all will benefit from the new capabilities.

Bryce