* Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer at sun.com> [2008-03-13 23:12]: > (redirecting to website-discuss) > > >>>>> "Guido" == Guido Ostkamp <Guido.Ostkamp at nsn.com> writes: > > Guido> I noticed that access to the OpenSolaris Mercurial repository is > Guido> only possible through ssh. Is there any reason for this when the > Guido> Source is already OpenSource? > > Well, I know of at least one implementation issue. Currently the same > host serves both the web site and the source repositories. I'm not a > web services expert, so I don't know how hard it would be to redirect > HTTP requests for Mercurial to the right place. We could spin up another system to handle that. What I believe is more complicated is that we use the same systems to handle multiple repositories under each of Subversion and Mercurial, with a single access mechanism. Mixing these into a coherent HTTP-accessible form is a project.
> The SCM implementation spec at > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/scm/scmhostspec/ does > mention allowing HTTP URLs. Maybe we just haven't gotten to > implementing that yet? No, that's implemented. The actual URL is http://opensolaris.org/sc/src/project/repo/foo.c > Guido> It would be really great if access could be made possible through > Guido> simple HTTP. > > Guido> Or at least if complete Mercurial bundle's would be offered for > Guido> HTTP download where I could download a base revision including > Guido> all history and then regular update bundles to get the rest of > Guido> it. > > We could certainly take that as a feature request. > http://bugs.opensolaris.org, category=solaris/opensolaris. Maybe. I've not yet heard a compelling case on why anonymous SSH access isn't sufficient. - Stephen -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
