While the
MySQL Server source trees are maintained using the
BitKeeper revision control system,
several other MySQL projects (Connectors, GUI-Tools and the Manual) use
Subversion instead.
To make it easier for external developers in getting familiar with the code base of the respective project, we now installed the FishEye SVN repository browser, which provides a very nice interface to the hosted repositories and boasts an impressive number of additional features like searching, diffing and RSS feeds.
This will hopefully encourage more developers to participate and contribute to these projects. FishEye will also make it more convenient for our own developers to work with their SVN repositories and should soon become a valuable tool for us.
