On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:14:37PM -0700, Sung Kim wrote: > Dear Apache HTTP Server Deveopers, > > We are doing some research on a NSF-funded project titled IVA(Instability > Visualization and Analysis), > http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/labs/grase/iva/. Basically, IVA reads all > revisions and deltas from SCM systems like CVS. Based on the data, IVA can > tell which module or part is instable (changes frequently when other modules > are changed) and visualize them.
Cool! > We would like to run IVA against the apache httpd server repository which > has the one of longest revision histories among open source projects. But, > we assume > fetching all revisions, deltas directly from public apache CVS server is not > a suitable way, since it may incur high traffic or possibly take the CVS > server down. Yup. That would be bad :-) > We are wondering if it is possible to get all RCS files of httpd-2.0 and > apache-1.3 modules of CVS so that we can copy all RCS files in our local CVS > server. See: http://cvs.apache.org/~gstein/ > We are going to use the RCS file for ONLY research purpose and do > not intend to make the revision history publically available. It is *totally* fine to make it publically available. Realize that it is *already* available :-) (via CVS, ViewCVS, and I think rsync) Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
