[Dspace-general] Subversion mirrored into DSpace?

[Tansley, Robert]

Hello Sergio,

I'm not quite sure I understand what the need is you're getting at.

If you mean using DSpace to archive snapshots of a versioning repository
like CVS or Subversion, then that's an interesting use case -- it's
vaguely similar to other use cases such as CWSpace, where snapshots of
content from a course management system are archived in DSpace.

DSpace was originally intended as an archival/reference information
system, as opposed to an active collaboration tool, hence thus far we've
skirted the issue of fine-grained versioning.  The idea of using
something like CVS or subversion as the underlying storage for DSpace
has been floated but not explored, because it is not really in line with
what most people want out of DSpace.

However this is open source -- you're free to try out anything!  Just
understand that if something you do is not in line with the overall
direction of DSpace, it may not be included in the main system.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu 
> [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Sergio Trejo
> Sent: 15 August 2005 13:55
> To: dspace-general at mit.edu
> Subject: [Dspace-general] Subversion mirrored into DSpace?
> 
> This may be a totally funky and wild idea, but I'm wondering if anyone
> has tried this yet:
> 
> Version control systems such as subversion have of course served the
> needs of developers collaborating. But there is no need to restrict
> the use of a version control system to merely software development of
> course (anything that goes through a rapid change process by
> collaborators can be stuff into version control).  What about
> mirroring a subversion repository into a DSpace repository (or feeding
> documents in a trunk or specific branch in a subversion repository
> into DSpace)? Maybe it would be as simple as writing a script to do
> so. There is a neat little open source project called svk that build
> on subversion and performs mirroring of repositories that could
> perhaps be used.
> 
> A crazy idea?
> 
> -Sergio
> 
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