[Flightgear-devel] Service update

2008-08-28 Thread Curtis Olson
This was way too long in coming, but I have done a few service updates. 1. The master ftp.*gear.org server was having stability problems for some time now and would crash every couple days. I never got to the bottom of the problem ... I fully replaced the motherboard, cpu, and memory at one

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Service update

2008-08-28 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: 3. I suspect I need to spend some time reviving the anonymous rsync server, but I haven't had a chance to look into that yet. No one has complained though so I assume it is not very popular and thus a lower priority. From my point of view this is not the correct

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Service update

2008-08-28 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: When I researched the topic, I saw over and over again that the biggest knock against git is that it does not have good support for windows. That has been repeated on this list by more than just me. Yes, GIT has had pretty bad Windows support for a long time. Yes, I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Service update

2008-08-28 Thread Reagan Thomas
Curtis Olson wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From my point of view this is not the correct conclusion. Instead, I simply assume that it doesn't make any difference wether I complain or not. So I remain

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Service update

2008-08-28 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I repeat: You have not shown to have a point against introducing an official (or 'authoritative') GIT mirror. Please explain to me what you consider to be unprofessional about this claim ? I have never attempted to make a