Excerpts from David Roundy's message of Wed Mar 26 21:15:24 +0100 2008: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 05:36:16PM +0000, Eric Kow wrote: > > > I still think that we shouldn't put tools into the darcs repository > > > that we aren't willing to support. For instance, I'd rather take > > > darcs.cgi out than add darcsweb in. (No, this isn't a threat to take > > > darcs.cgi out, but merely to point out that just because it's > > > distributed with darcs doesn't mean it works... as discovered recently > > > when someone tried to use darcs.cgi.) > > > > Would a dedicated/standalone darcs-contrib repository be useful? (we > > could move darcs.cgi there). I suppose we could use a cursory-review > > model, where we basically push in anything that looks like it was > > submitted in good faith. > > Moving darcs.cgi would definitely be nice. I'd rather not include server > software with darcs that might introduce a remote vulnerability. > > > Maybe it would help for collecting a bunch of little scripts that > > nobody really wants to maintain. > > > > I have no opinion on the matter. Zooko: if you think this may be a good > > idea, would you be willing to take care of it? I guess we could host it > > on darcs.net if David agrees. > > That's reasonable, but I'd also rather not have to expand the number of > people that we give accounts to. Perhaps someone else could be in charge > of this? In my opinion it'd certainly be nicer to avoid giving me yet more > adminning work, and previous experience suggests that when someone > volunteers to take admin something, sooner or later they stop, and then I > have to do it (or it just goes unmaintained, which sometimes doesn't > hurt). > > I lost the repository of cvs2darcs when we changed servers on darcs.net. I > thought it was completely unmaintained, but as it turns out (I just found > out a week ago) I lost the history of two years of work. I thought that I > had saved everything from the old server, but apparently I didn't. The > point being that I'm not a particularly good sysadmin, and I don't > particularly want to be one, and I'd rather have fewer rather than more > resources under my control. Doesn't Zooko have a server? I'd be happy to > point contrib.darcs.net at his server.
Moreover increasing the load of the darcs.net server should be avoided. -- Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai
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