[svnbook] r6057 committed - trunk/en/book

[C. Michael Pilato]

And just to finally tie this ancient convo off:  Digital.ai was cool with
the gifting, lawyers all thumbs up, but we struggled to make contact with
Apache Legal, and in the end the Subversion devs decided to Just Do It and
mirror the articles at https://subversion.apache.org/blog/.  Yay!

On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 12:31 PM C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato at red-bean.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 2:54 AM Daniel Sahlberg <
> daniel.l.sahlberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> While going through the source for these updates, I made a few notes.
>>
>> There are two links to collab.net that don't work very well:
>> * ch04-branching-and-merging.xml#svn.branchmerge.advanced.finalword
>>   There is an article written by Paul Burba about merge-info (
>> http://www.open.collab.net/community/subversion/articles/merge-info.html).
>> www.open.collab.net seems to respond and it even redirects to https,
>> however the server doesn't support TLS 1.2 and the two browsers I tried
>> (Firefox and Edge under Win11) both frowned upon the site. I was able to
>> reach the site using Links (under Ubuntu).
>> * ch06-server-configuration.xml#svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.gotchas
>>   There is a link to a blog post by C. Michael Pilato (
>> http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/2007/03/authz_and_anon_/) where I
>> can't figure out a way to get the original content from collab.net. It
>> is possible to access it through archive.org (*https://web.archive.org/web/20130721090205/http://blogs.collab.net:80/subversion/authz_and_anon_
>> <https://web.archive.org/web/20130721090205/http://blogs.collab.net:80/subversion/authz_and_anon_>*).
>> There is a TODO: note "Merge content from the blog post into the book".
>> Is it possible to rehost those? I assume copyright comes into play in
>> delicate ways.
>>
>
> For what it's worth, last December I initiated conversations within
> Digital.ai (formerly CollabNet) about gifting those articles to the
> Subversion community.  The parties I was working with seemed sympathetic
> and positive, but the priority of the discussion ultimately fell below the
> threshold of consciousness (not least because it spanned the holiday
> break).  I will try to re-engage.
>
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