The two organizations are both in agreement about improvements to the popular open source project, which has millions of users and is deployed for versioning source code, letting developers record who makes code changes and providing an audit trail.  

on Monday to , saying, "WANdisco CEO David Richards that bogus changes are being committed to the master tree. He wrote: 'We ... believe it's unhelpful when certain unscrupulous committers decide to commit trivial changes in large files to simply get their stats up. That behavior has no place in any open source project; it's a bad form [sic] and wastes everyone's valuable time.' "

Apache wrote: "We are unaware of any such behavior among the Subversion maintainers. Our repository logs are always open for public inspection, yet when asked to show evidence, Richards refused." Apache also rejects the notion that WANdisco was involved in the creation of Subversion, stating CollabNet created it in 2000.

Reached on Monday, Richards expressed regret for some of his comments and said Subversion was in very safe hands with Apache. He stressed he was ironing out WANdisco's dispute with Apache.