Re: GUI interface to Subversion via web browser?

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 9:11 AM Johan Corveleyn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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?

Beanstalk has always seemed like a solid service:  https://beanstalkapp.com/
And Assembla still exists: https://get.assembla.com/


> 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
> :-).

The Apache project for this is Allura: https://allura.apache.org/

Mark