Subversion: 200,000 and counting
Last August I blogged about Subversion running on 150,000 public Apache servers. On December 31st ’07 that number had grown to 199,432, less than 600 short of allowing me to open the New Year with a 200K announcement.
The data only reflect a subset of the Subversion servers out there. There are lots of Apache servers that do not report their modules, there’s svnserve, and then there is Subversion behind firewalls. The graph shows a trend, not the absolute number. |
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If you want to read about managing Subversion through SFEE, check out the paragraph “SourceForge Enterprise SCM Integration Framework” in the December 2007 openCollabNet Technical Newsletter (find it in the newsletter archive). One of the interesting things of SFEE is that it can easily take existing Subversion repositories under its hood and you can even manage non-Subversion legacy systems. This is great for migrations to Subversion. For example, start new projects on SVN but continue some existing ones on ClearCase until these projects are ready to migrate. You can download the free 15-user version of SourceForge Enterprise Edition from openCollabNet. One caveat though: it’s a VMware image that only supports the Subversion server that comes with it. To manage other Subversion servers or legacy systems, you need the full version of SourceForge Enterprise Edition. |
Attribution: Subversion data provided by E-Soft (http://www.securityspace.com). If you want to track the number month by month, monitor our Subversion growth page. |
I looked at the number again this morning: Subversion is now on more than 220,000 servers. A month-over-month growth of over 10%. These numbers are staggering and - 
At CollabNet we track more data around Subversion and I see similar trends in other areas. For instance, downloads of the 
Congratulations!
At the moment I am helping a company to switch their development process to subversion.
The Beta downloads are already 3 months old, when will they be updated?
Is there any news about a possible release date for the long-awaited Merge Tracking?
René Leonhardt | February 02, 2008 at 01:42 AM
Oh, one thing, the mentioned article is included in the December 2007 newsletter:
http://www.open.collab.net/newsletter/2007-12.html
And for such big downloads, why don't you offer BitTorrent links?
They can easily be generated automatically:
http://code.google.com/p/metalink-library/
René Leonhardt | February 02, 2008 at 01:49 AM
Hi René,
Oh yes, the December Newsletter. I corrected the post. Thanks for pointing it out.
Before we acquired SFEE, VA Software supported bittorrent downloads but they told us that people hardly used it, so we decided not to do it. If more people start requesting bittorrent, we might reconsider of course.
We will update the SVN beta binaries soon. The 1.5 release branch was created a few days back. There are one or two things the developers will fix in this branch that we are waiting for before updating the binaries. Check back in a few days. As for a release date: when the new binaries are posted on openCollabNet, lets help the community with testing to shorten the soak time and get a solid 1.5.
Guido Haarmans | February 02, 2008 at 10:34 AM