History of MediaWiki version control

MediaWiki's source code history began in SourceForge's CVS version control system. An extended outage of SourceForge's developer CVS service forced our hand to finally go ahead and set up our own source code repository as of April 1, 2006.

The new repository is using Subversion, which is ever so slightly trendier than CVS but provides a pretty similar interface so should not be too disruptive.

Between April 1, 2006 and May 31, 2007, the repository was hosted on Brion's offsite server (http://www.leuksman.com). As of May 31, 2007, the repository is hosted on mayflower, a Wikimedia server in Amsterdam.