On Aug 28, 2011, at 4:32 AM, Germán Arduino wrote: > I think that having problems in software is a common reality, unfortunately. > > May be Squeaksource and it's servers (I don't know) are having a lot > in these days, but the point I would mention is that is needed to > think in "availability" more than in have 0 problems.
The problem of the instability of SS is that using files as a back end when you put hundred thousands of files in on folder does not scale. Guess how many files are in the seaside repository :) and the pharo? Stef > The problems will exist, sooner or later, with SmalltalkHub or > Squeaksource3, the challenge is, in my point of view, to have > availability (some ways of reaction) in front of different failures. no we hope not. > May be Squeaksource3 (based in Gemstone) is already covering this > topic, and surely also SmalltalkHub could do it, but this is the key > in my opinion, not have a single point of failure. > > Just my 2 cents. > > > 2011/8/27 Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]>: >> >> On Aug 26, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Alexander Lazarević wrote: >> >>> Hi Stef! >>> >>> 2011/8/26 Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> >>> In Squeak alexander lazaverich did a SystemReporter. I wanted to have a >>> look but got distracted. >>> It would be good to use it. >>> >>> Sure thing that I was just about to mention that it is on SqueakSource, >>> when there is no SqueakSource. :-/ >>> >>> Boy, this is annoying. >>> >>> To me it seems that the SqueakSource repo on source.squeak.org received >>> some more love in the past so that it seems to be more stable and >>> responsive. Just for practical reasons (a source repo that's not available >>> over long periods of time just suxx) I'm considering moving my few bits to >>> source.squeak.org until there is a reliable alternative. >>> >>> Wouldn't it make also good sense to move some vital stuff like the vmmaker >>> repo to this destination? I know this will be controversial, but the >>> current situation is bad at best. >>> >>> I think the broken SqueakSource is hurting us more than we know! >> >> yes >> But beside magic I cannot do much. We discussed with nicolas petton and he >> is working hard to make sure that SmalltalkHub will not have such problem. >> >> >> > > > > -- > ================================================= > Germán S. Arduino <gsa @ arsol.net> Twitter: garduino > Arduino Software & Web Hosting http://www.arduinosoftware.com > PasswordsPro http://www.passwordspro.com > ================================================= >
