Hi,
Bas has informed me that, apparently, there is some kind of hardware
problem with our current CVS server. He has offered to move CVS to his
machine at work (which would be backed up only once); however, there are
alternatives.
Since development is speeding up again and is unlikely to decrease
considerably in the next two months (due to two reasons I'll explain
as soon as they're reasonably certain-- IRC visitors will already be
aware of these, of course), I'd suggest we evaluate the alternatives we
have.
Currently, these are: Bas' box at work, shaftnet.org (offered by Solomon),
savannah.gnu.org, sourceforge.net, and berlios.de. While there are at
least two people who are somewhat sceptical about sourceforge.net, there
is, at the moment, little technical reason for not including it in this
list.
My suggestion would be to list the relevant technical specs of these and
compare them. These specs include at least:
(1) Backup interval
(2) Maintainer ("Individual", "Volunteers", "Company")
(3) bandwidth to the core developers
(4) Long-term availability
Any thoughts on this, or reasonable alternatives I haven't listed above?
Bas, is there some service running on your box which we could do bandwidth
measurements with? What do you expect (4) to be for it?
Solomon, what are (1) and (4) for shaftnet.org?
Thanks for any feedback,
llap,
Christoph
