On another note, a quick inspection shows that you seem to have checked in a lot of tarballs for various projects (presumably, those that you will provide for your distro). Aside from the fact that it's abusing Subversion as Ben explained, I doubt that all of those are licensed as GPLv2, which is the license you announce in your project description.
- Dave On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 16:28, Ben Collins-Sussman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, we're happy to help you here, but you're really abusing > subversion. It's a version control system, not a generic distribution > system for "release packages". It should contain source code -- like > rpm or deb definitions, but not the binary packages themselves. And > definitely not whole ISO images! This is why we have the "downloads" > feature -- precisely for creating and distributing release packages. > Do you think you can reorganize things to follow best practices, and > make heavy use of the downloads-system instead? The rule of thumb is > that "derivable" things (binaries, object code, releases) don't go > into source control, only "non-derivable" things (like code and > package definitions), since those are the things that actually need > change-tracking. The derived stuff doesn't need change-tracking, > because well, they can be derived from the tracked sources. :-) > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Massimiliano Brocchini > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> my name is Massimiliano Brocchini and I'm the owner of Archlinux-i586 >>> project (http://code.google.com/p/archlinux-i586/). >>> This morning I hit 932 MB of disk space and I was wondering if I can get >>> two or three gigabytes of additional disk space. >>> I'd like to release an ISO CD image soon and add other files to SVN, so I >>> would really appreciate it if you could give some more space to my project. >>> >>> The project is running since 2nd of January 2009 and is going on very >>> well. >>> I publicly announced it six days ago on Archlinux forum >>> (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65880) and there are severak >>> users of Archlinux really interested in contributing and many already using >>> it. >>> >>> Please feel free to contact me if you have any question. >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Massimiliano Brocchini >> >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
