Hi Paul, Savannah Hackers,
I have noticed that from time to time myself. In general my impression
regarding savannah is that:
* savannah is really nice, no annoying two-factor authentication
nonsense, but
* viewvc is slower than svn or git,
* git is slower than svn, and
* svn over https: is slower than svn over svn+ssh:
In your case I would recommend to frequently *svn up*; you do not
need to recompile GNU APL if you seen nothing worthwhile for you.
The first svn checkout determines the protocol that will be used for
subsequent *svn up*s.
After *svn up*:
*$ svn log | less*
is reasonably fast to see what the main reason for the commit was.
I also copied this email to savannah, but I suppose they are aware already.
Best Regards,
Jürgen Sauermann
Maintainer of GNU APL.
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On 1/17/26 22:55, Paul Rockwell wrote:
Lately, I find that trying to browse the GNU APL Subversion repository
on savannah.gnu.org <http://savannah.gnu.org> is a hit or miss (mostly
miss) proposition.
I tend to browse the repository to see if there are any submissions
that might make it worth my while to update my local sources and
rebuild GNU APL to take advantage of them. But I find that more often
than not, trying to access
https://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?root=apl is met with an error
message "502 Bad Gateway" from nginx. Matterns not which browser I'm
using (Firefox on mac/linux, Safari on macOS/iPadOS, or Microsoft
Edge(macOS and Windows).
Something on the hosting web server appears to be very flaky.
I do seem to be able to browse the git repository, but that's not the
same.. The SVN browser is quite convenient to deternine not only that
something has changed, but what has changed.
Any chance of ping'ing the admin of that site to find out what's going
wrong?
- Paul Rockwell
