On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 05:36:16PM +0000, Eric Kow wrote: > > I still think that we shouldn't put tools into the darcs repository > > that we aren't willing to support. For instance, I'd rather take > > darcs.cgi out than add darcsweb in. (No, this isn't a threat to take > > darcs.cgi out, but merely to point out that just because it's > > distributed with darcs doesn't mean it works... as discovered recently > > when someone tried to use darcs.cgi.) > > Would a dedicated/standalone darcs-contrib repository be useful? (we > could move darcs.cgi there). I suppose we could use a cursory-review > model, where we basically push in anything that looks like it was > submitted in good faith.
Moving darcs.cgi would definitely be nice. I'd rather not include server software with darcs that might introduce a remote vulnerability. > Maybe it would help for collecting a bunch of little scripts that > nobody really wants to maintain. > > I have no opinion on the matter. Zooko: if you think this may be a good > idea, would you be willing to take care of it? I guess we could host it > on darcs.net if David agrees. That's reasonable, but I'd also rather not have to expand the number of people that we give accounts to. Perhaps someone else could be in charge of this? In my opinion it'd certainly be nicer to avoid giving me yet more adminning work, and previous experience suggests that when someone volunteers to take admin something, sooner or later they stop, and then I have to do it (or it just goes unmaintained, which sometimes doesn't hurt). I lost the repository of cvs2darcs when we changed servers on darcs.net. I thought it was completely unmaintained, but as it turns out (I just found out a week ago) I lost the history of two years of work. I thought that I had saved everything from the old server, but apparently I didn't. The point being that I'm not a particularly good sysadmin, and I don't particularly want to be one, and I'd rather have fewer rather than more resources under my control. Doesn't Zooko have a server? I'd be happy to point contrib.darcs.net at his server. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
