This thread is meant to gather and streamline the discussion regarding our choice of version control system. Discussion appeared to be in several places. I did my best to gather all relevant material, but feel free to add any missing information.
We currently use svn, this has been working ever since 2004.
Some earlier discussion about the lobby bots:
Below an excerpt from an e-mail Stan has send round a while ago to all staff members:
A relevant related topic is
It seems like we haven't done enough "comparison shopping", because I found several CI/CD tools that support Svn, Git, and even Mercurial.
Apache's comparison of CI/CD tools
How seriously is Svn being considered as a solution? It seems like it is completely possible. The decision process for selecting CI/CD tools would need to be less rushed.
These are the options that I would suggest.
Tools that support Svn and Git, are actively developed and maintained, and allow self-hosti