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RubyForge now running Subversion 1.6.1

Upgraded RubyForge to Subversion 1.6.1; anyone used “svnadmin pack” or have other optimization suggestions?

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I need to upgrade Git, too - RubyForge is using 1.5.3.8 and I see 1.6.2.5 is out. Need to research if we need to dump/load all the existing repos for a major version upgrade…

At the moment Rubyforge seems (to me) like the default gem source that also happens to have a website nobody uses. Just my opinion but Rubyforge needs to reinvent itself as a CPAN style gem archive since thats what people use it as. Throw in automatic rdoc generation and decent source/gem/rdoc fulltext searching (think sphinx) and you’ve got a site people will actually use.

Completely agree with Teddy. And these days it seems like more people are using github for their gems since there’s no waiting period.

Just chiming in - I totally agree. The Rubyforge website needs to redesign from the ground up to be far more user friendly and provide actual value. Right now it’s really not very useful, let alone usable.

All the above +1

Yup, many things about the RubyForge interface are both dated and dreadful. And doing a CPAN-ish gem searching/documentation gizmo would be nice. It does seem like many folks are using RubyForge mostly for a place to release gems and get them into the main index. As with all things, finding time to do stuff is always the problem…

couldn’t agree more

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