On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 20:20 +0100, paul_c wrote:
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> The move was made without consultation or due process.
IRC meeting, April, 2006
"The Sourceforge CVS system has experienced troubles on
2006-03-30, and after a few days it still wasn't looking bright
for a fast fix. We decided, without a formal vote (but with 4
members present), to look for alternatives of CVS hosting, most
of the ones we found were either not-free or had serious
limitations, so we decided to move all CVS to cvs.linuxcnc.org
(hosted by the project itself, and administered by some of the
members). (later 04.05.2006 the service is still not 100%
functional which means our decision was appropiate)."
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?BoardOfDirectors
> As a result, the
> project admins no longer have any control.
As you well know, the SourceForge admin group was never the software
controlling focus of the project so I don't understand what control they
had and lost in the change of the CVS to a locally controlled
repository. It was FredP that suggested we clean out the SourceForge
admin list long years ago and the board made a small effort in that
direction by putting forward a policy of yearly review. However nothing
has been done to clean up the now obsolete admin group.
> In addition, the repository is on
> an untrusted server reliant on a single person maintaining the hardware and
> system security.
I guess that would be untrusted me 'cause whois reports my name addy and
phone when you ask about linuxcnc.org. Ultimately the board is
responsible for access to the repository and no one who has asked has
been refused. We have had none of the down time and lost commit trouble
since we have moved the repository. The guys who maintain this server
have done a very good job to date. And even if there were data
tampering on the server what would be the worst problem caused. I guess
we'd have to restore it from one of our own check outs or from the farm.
It's not like we are trying to protect rocket science or my mental
health records here.
Rayh
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