jZnat's Journal: THAT many people use WebSVN!?

WebSVN, a Subversion repository viewer written in PHP, is quite popular on the internets. When I came aboard as the only other developer for it, I was completely unaware at the vast amount of people using it. Then again, Wikipedia doesn't have an article about it, so who knows how popular it really is without searching on-line?

Of course, I knew Debian/Ubuntu had a package for it (it's sort of how I found out about it), but Debian has a package for everything, so I wasn't surprised. Now that it's been a few months since 2.0rc1 was originally released, I'm starting to wonder why Tim (the lead developer) hasn't released a final 2.0 version yet. I basically just branched off my rc's and continued work toward 2.1 (or more likely, 3.0), but a 2.0 release has yet to be made. Gentoo apparently has a 2.0rc1 testing ebuild, so that's nice to see; however, I do recall making some sort of semi-official rc2 build (well, the 2.0 branch is currently tagged as 2.0rc3 according to include/version.inc, so an rc2 had to happen sometime), so what gives with that?

Maybe I should get ready to release WebSVN 2.0 myself. I'll need to get a press release ready (and posted on Slashdot of course), and maybe I should make sure Tigris can withold a slashdotting. Any release-critical bugs should be squashed before sending it out the door of course.

Here's hoping that millions upgrade their WebSVN 1.61 (usually that version) installations to 2.0 soon after its release!