For the last 2 or so days anytime I checked the svn repo it has been down. Does anyone know when it will be back?
The SVN is available, just the repository browser is currently disabled thanks to Alibaba / Tencent AI scraper bots absolutely hammering our server. If you just want to read the source without checking it out, you can continue doing that via the Git mirror at https://github.com/OpenMPT/openmpt/ - any regular SVN client will still be able to connect to the repository at https://source.openmpt.org/svn/
Also note that they are ignoring established internet standards (they refuse to honor robots.txt, which clearly states to not crawl the repository browser).
A work-around would be to invest about 4x the amount of money into renting server infrastructure so that we can sustain the induced load, just because they are doing hostile things. We choose to spend that money more wisely :).
I'm a little confused how you're supposed to contribute code.
I just wanted to fix something small so I downloaded the repo, made a branch and fixed it. But when I try to commit it wants a password which I don't have. And I don't know what I would need to do after that, what's the svn equivalent of a pr?
We accept contributions through several mechanisms, please check out doc/contributing.md in the repository. :)
Ok thanks! I missed that somehow.