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3/15/2012 12:40 PM
 

Apologies if this isn't the right section, there doesn't appear to be anywhere for SVN (source code) questions.

We use Git to pull from the CodePlex SVN repo and maintain customisations against DNN. Many of our deployments are based on v5 and we're not yet in a position to upgrade all of them to v6. We'd therefore like to put SVN changesets for V5.

I can't see changesets for V5 releases in the standard SVN repo, despite there being several recent V5 releases (e.g., v5.6.7, released Feb 12) . I was expecting to see a separate branch or similar, but nothing shows up. Are V5 changesets available?

Many thanks,  Ben

 
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3/15/2012 12:53 PM
 
Scott S (DNN) wrote: "The codeplex repo only tracks the DNN trunk. Source for each maintenance release is provided in .zip form but there is no public source repo available."

As V5 is actively maintained (and the same situation will arise with V6 when V7 is released), could source access to the V5 branch be allowed?  Otherwise you're effectively removing developer support for the previous version the instant the new one is released - the community can't effectively review or contribute patches as soon as this happens.

Thanks,  Ben

 
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3/15/2012 1:09 PM
 
we dont have a mechanism to do so AFAIK, codeplex only supports a single HEAD of source code -in theory we could push updates from our 2 internal branches as source code pushes but Im not sure that is necessary as 5.x is not actively developed, we only fix security issues (as per our sunsetting policy - http://security.dotnetnuke.com/ ), so you can actually get all the fixes by getting the latest 5.x source releases -http://dotnetnuke.codeplex.com/releases/view/83632

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3/15/2012 3:01 PM
 
Hi Cathal - thanks for the input. Do you take on-board my point though that the minute (for example) v7 is released, v6 changesets will no longer be accessible, making it far more difficult for the community to review security fixes and contribute patches for v6?

Are you sure CodePlex doesn't support mutliple branches BTW? I understand TFS supports branches just fine, which is presumably what you're using internally?  Thanks,  Ben
 
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3/15/2012 4:10 PM
 

actually we only ever publish changesets from the trunk so at the minute what you're seeing is nightly's from the forthcoming 6.2.0 release (whilst we do use TFS there is no TFS to codeplex integration - we use some custom code to push changes across but there is not full fidelity with the TFS capabilitiues-hence why the code comments we have interneally dont appear on codeplex).

Internally there is a seperate branch for the next planned release (in this case 6.1.5) - as the maintenance team check in changes to it they merge those changes into the trunk, ensuring that 6.2.0 is always up to date.

BTW when we move to a new major branch we stop developing the earlier branches (except for security issues which are fixed for 1 additional year)


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