Asterisk source code management

Old page – Asterisk is now moved from cvs to subversion as of Asterisk version 1.2.

Requirements

Needs

Good user permission/separations per branch
Atomic commits

Wants

Easier maintenance of private change sets
Availability to the Mac, *BSD, and Windows groups without too many hoops.
Good binary file handling (for handling sounds, iaxy firmware)
Tagging & branching that can be understood by non-CVS gurus
Proper rename/remove support
Good merge support
Web interface for browsing source code repository
Documentation (esp. a “new-cool-scm-tool for CVS converts” document)
Emailed commit logs
Interface to mantis bug tracker

(De)centralized?

Subversion is a centralized repository, like CVS. Most others (and BitKeeper) are decentrelized: every copy can be a separate repository. Centralized vs. decentralized is a good topic for flames.

Candidates

Subversion / svk
Arch / Bazaar

Comparisons

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm.html – A small counter-flame: don’t flame in the mailing list before you’ve read all of this. A good review, BTW.