Re: GUI interface to Subversion via web browser?

On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 10:06 AM Bo Berglund <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am running an SVN server on an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system and I have the Apache
> connection so I can access it via its web interface.
>
> This works but is *very limited* in functionality, so I am looking for some kind
> of GUI interface that can be added to my Ubuntu SVN installation and gives me
> functionality to view file revisions, logs etc and also diff revisions using the
> web view.

What lots of people these days are looking for (myself included) is a
modern "Code Forge" [1][2][3], like GitHub/Lab/... or like the Forgejo
project [4] with its cloud-hosted platform Codeberg [5], but then for
Subversion.

I'd like a modern web interface (hostable on-premise or in the cloud)
that includes:
- Version control repositories (and management thereof)
- Online viewing, searching, diffing, ... (like ViewVC)
- Online editing, committing directly from the web interface
- Ability to manage patches aka pull requests
- Mailing lists and Forums
- Notification system (with ability to individually configure "watch" patterns)
- Issue tracker
- Code reviews
- Wiki
- General (plugable) "Actions" framework
- CI system with buildagents / bots
- Artifact repository
- Enterprise level user management
- ...
- Also accessible from mobile devices of course

Oh, and if possible it should flexibly integrate with external systems
that may already be present in your environment, like if you have a
JIRA issue tracker or wiki or ... you would want to integrate that one
instead of the "default / reference" implementation.

I'm dreaming of course, but wouldn't that be nice?

Seriously, if we'd ever start such a sub-project under the Apache
Subversion umbrella one day, I'd be interested in joining the effort
:-).

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Informatics/Forges
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_source-code-hosting_facilities
[4] https://forgejo.org/
[5] https://codeberg.org/

-- 
Johan