On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Ben Cooksley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Michael Pyne <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 08:17:29PM +1300, Ben Cooksley wrote: >>> HI all, >>> >>> As of late Sysadmin has been assessing what components of our >>> infrastructure are in active use and should be maintained going >>> forward. >>> >>> As part of this it has come to our attention that the repository >>> tarballs offered by our anongit network (tar.gz files of our >>> repositories essentially) are effectively unused - with only 19 hits >>> being received by one mirror in the space of a week. >> >> Not an objection, but the low usage may be due to the use of tarball >> repo snapshots being disabled in kdesrc-build for a few months now. >> >> Of course, kdesrc-build was using the snapshots by default out of an >> effort to be gentler to KDE source code repositories, so if it's easier >> for you all to forgo the snapshots entirely then I'm fully supportive.
Hi all, > > It's definitely easier on the servers disks I think :) > The anongit servers haven't had any issues with load as far as I can > remember, so I think it's safe in this case for kdesrc-build to use > normal git:// or https:// clones. > > If nobody objects in the next 24 hours i'd like to go ahead with > discontinuing the tarballs. As previously announced i've now begun the process of discontinuing the generation and distribution of the tarballs. Many thanks to those who responded to this thread. > >> >> Regards, >> - Michael Pyne > > Cheers, > Ben Regards, Ben Cooksley
