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- It just redirects to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/?pathrev=115794 not to the actual revision in phabricator.
Expected results
- That should redirect to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rSVN115794
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SVN is two (or will be shortly) revision control systems ago, Do we really still need these redirects at all?
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Not really. This is only a suggestion since some website still use the old revision of the extension.
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I'm sure people would still use gopher if we kept it around, I'm not sure that's a use case for keeping these domain redirects around.
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Declining as ops won't spend time on this (however if you have a patch ready in Gerrit for redirects please link to it and it will get reviewed).
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Reopening, We discussed this earlier elsewhere, and was pointed out to me, that we should either fix the broken redirects, Or my suggestion was just to kill off the svn.* redirections since its taken this long to notice it.
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I think we should either decline this OR redirect to gitlab OR to gerrit, just definitely not to Phabricator anymore.
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I don't think that there is any exact mapping from the old SVN commits and the git repos that were split from it. As far as I know Phabricator is the only active svn hosting service we have today.
Subversion is still actively developed software with packages available in Debian. I wonder how difficult it would be to containerize a subversion server with a working web interface for this? Viewvc seems to have been last packaged for buster (reasonably since it is a python2 app), but it is also still actively developed and working towards a python3 supporting release. It seems that the development trunk it may already work for the core use cases that I assume our read-only browsing would need.
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I've boldly updated the task description to suggest targetting https://static-codereview.wikimedia.org instead which is where diffs and code review for SVN is hosted long-term.
Having said that, most of these URLs aren't for viewing single commits, but viewing directories or files at a certain revision. That indeed would require a proper SVN repo with viewer of sorts, which today, we only have on Phabricator.