On Friday, May 20, 2011 23:28:07 Tom Albers wrote: > Hi, > > As known, sysadmin is trying to transfer services away from ktown. One of > the current tasks of ktown is to provide nightly snapshots of svn to this > location: > > ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/snapshots/ > > We are wondering if it is worth to move this service or to stop it. > Arguments to stop it are: 1) needs svn checkout on the replacement server > and 2) less and less usage of it as svn is 'old' technology. > > The only user we know of these snapshots is kdesrc-build, and I'm pretty > sure that app will cope fine without the tarballs. If there are other > users, we would like to know.
Based on the wind-down of the Subversion source repository I have been thinking of removing this feature from kdesrc-build anyways. The main reason I had added it in the first place was to reduce the load on the Subversion servers from people using kdesrc-build to make automated checkouts, so kdesrc- build will follow whatever the sysadmins desire in this regard. > Does anyone feel this service should remain? If so, that's fine, but we just > need some arguments for it. > > projects.kde.org does create tarballs for the git repo's and will continue > to do so. This is only about the svn counterpart. Perhaps this is ironic, but kdesrc-build does *not* at this point support snapshots for git modules (even hosted on git.kde.org) because I assume (and this is just my assumption) that the cost of generating the snapshot would be a net loss for the git.kde.org server. Just let me know what is desired either way and kdesrc-build will support. Regards, - Michael Pyne
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