Svnman
Svnman (pronounced ess-vee-en-man) is the ProgClub Subversion project management software. That's the software that manages creation, maintenance, and release of Subversion projects. For other projects see projects.
Status
We use semantic versioning. Latest production version: 1.0. Latest development version: 1.0.
See tasks for work that still needs to be done.
Motivation
Why this software? Basically to help with project management, particularly around versioning of artefacts.
Administration
Contributors
Members who have contributed to this project. Newest on top.
All contributors have agreed to the terms of the Contributor License Agreement. This excludes any upstream contributors who tend to have different administrative frameworks.
Copyright
Copyright © 2020, Contributors.
License
Licensed under the MIT license.
Components
Libraries, tools, services or media from third parties used under license:
Resources
Downloads
There are presently no tarballs.
Source code
The repository can be browsed online:
https://www.progclub.org/pcrepo/svnman/trunk
The latest stable (read-only) released version of the code is available from Subversion from:
https://www.progclub.org/svn/pcrepo/svnman/trunk
Or if you want the latest version for development purposes:
https://www.progclub.org/svn/pcrepo/svnman/branches/1.0
Links
Specifications
Functional specification
The functional specification describes what the project does.
The software provides a system command with various subcommands for administering projects in a Subversion repository. For details see the command-line interface.
Technical specification
The technical specification describes how the project works.
The software is written in PHP (tested on version 7.2) and shells out to the 'svn' command-line utility (tested on version 1.9.7).
Configuration data is kept in JSON format in $HOME/.config/svnman/config.json. Use the alias subcommand to specify configuration data via the command-line.
Notes
See versioning for information on our semantic version numbers.
Notes for implementers
If you are interested in incorporating this software into your project, here's what you need to know:
This software presumes that the Subversion project has the typical base directories:
- trunk
- branches
- tags
However, we don't use 'trunk' for development. Instead development happens in $major.$minor version branches. So version 0.3 is developed in 'branches/0.3' and version 1.0 is developed in 'branches/1.0'. When a version branch is released by this script 'trunk' can optionally be updated. Within tags the latest $major.$minor versions are maintained under 'tags/latest/$major.$minor' and releases are tagged under 'tags/release/$major/$minor/$patch'.
In order to run svnman you should create an svnman symlink somewhere in your $PATH and point it to bin/svnman.php, something like this:
$ ln -s /path/to/svnman/bin/svnman.php svnman
Notes for developers
If you're looking to set up a development environment for this project here's what you need to know:
$ svn co https://www.progclub.org/pcrepo/svnman/branches/1.0 svnman-1.0
Notes for ProgClub administrators
To release a version of this project use the software itself.
First, generate the documentation:
$ bin/dev/gen.sh
Then make sure your working copy is committed:
$ svn ci --message 'Work, work...'
Then run the release:
$ bin/dev/release.sh
You will be prompted to update the project documentation.
Tasks
TODO
MEDIUM
- TODO: bin/dev/gen.sh: 11: generate tasks.wiki with TODO and Done sections...
- TODO: inc/lib.php: 2264: this needs better reporting. Some colour coding would be nice too.
- TODO: inc/lib.php: 2267: need to support other version file formats. Especially *.sh and *.ini formats.
- TODO: inc/lib.php: 2270: add a --debug command-line option.
- TODO: inc/lib.php: 2272: add a 'latest' subcommand that reports if the current branch is the latest and if not what is.
- TODO: inc/lib.php: 2279: add support for 'browse' subcommand.
- TODO: inc/lib.php: 2281: add support for 'fix-version' subcommand. Will increment even patch version to odd number.
- TODO: inc/lib.php: 2284: clean up after ourselves, delete temp files and directories...
- TODO: inc/lib.php: 2287: add support for --tarball generation during release.
- TODO: inc/lib.php: 2289: improve the documentation.
- TODO: inc/lib.php: 2294: add a --json argument which causes program output to be in stable JSON format for better integration.
LOW
- THINK: inc/lib.php: 1590: do we want to just automatically mkdir -p the working base..?
- THINK: inc/lib.php: 2275: do we want an optional argument --version-file for manually nominating the version file..? (At the moment we prefer convention over configuration.)
- THINK: inc/lib.php: 2297: consider adding an interactive mode that will confirm options or ask questions.
Done
Stuff that's done. Latest stuff on top.
