On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 11:04:47PM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > José Fonseca wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 04:18:15PM +0200, Dieter Nützel wrote: > > > >>Mesa3d seems to be affected, too. > >> > >>No mesa CVS update for 10 days, now ;-( > >>My DRI CVS is 12 days old... > >> > >>No chance from "old Europe" anymore? > > > > > >I've just checked and the tarballs in > >http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/projectname-cvsroot.tar.gz for > >DRI and Mesa3d are just as old as the anonymous CVS server, and from the > >SF documents there is no other way to directly access the repository > >(except contact the SF team, but you can't put that in a cron job, can > >you? ;-) > > > >Basically this means that CVS mirroring is impossible and the only > >solution to the current problem is to move the repository elsewhere. > > Is there a solid alternative to sourceforge? One with better backing that > will keep it going if large numbers of projects start using it? > > >I don't know why the silence from the DRI SF project admins - I'm CC'ing > >to them now (at least those currently in the active) in the hope to hear > >what they have to say about this. > > Not so much silence as a lack of answers... > > >I remind again that this issue should be presented to the SF team to > >know what's their position and what to expect from the future. This > >issue [of the unreliable CVS anonymous serving] together with the recent > >news of closing inactive and old projects may well be a sign that SF is > >saturating again, but this time the saturation appears to be fought not > >by further investment, but degrading the quality of the services. If > >true then it's a matter of time to collapse, or at least be unusable for > >big projects such as DRI. > > This is a reasonable proposition -- let's start putting a draft together, > then. > > ------- > > SF admins, > > We're concerned about the recent changes to anonymous cvs access, in > particular the way in which changes committed by developers take an > extended period (upto days) to become visible to anonymous cvs users. As > we rely heavily on a test/debug/fix cycle that includes input and > interaction from anonymous cvs users, this delay represents a real > roadblock for our development efforts. Can you outline the reasons that > this has started happening, whether it will be resolved and if so on what > timescale?
Reading the SF master bug database, the only workaround for this problem is to create nightly CVS snapshots of the trunk for people to download who are not members of the project. That's the SF admins response on the master bug database for now anyway. Alan. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
