On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 11:04:47PM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > José Fonseca wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 04:18:15PM +0200, Dieter Nützel wrote: > > > >>Mesa3d seems to be affected, too. > >> > >>No mesa CVS update for 10 days, now ;-( > >>My DRI CVS is 12 days old... > >> > >>No chance from "old Europe" anymore? > > > > > >I've just checked and the tarballs in > >http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/projectname-cvsroot.tar.gz for > >DRI and Mesa3d are just as old as the anonymous CVS server, and from the > >SF documents there is no other way to directly access the repository > >(except contact the SF team, but you can't put that in a cron job, can > >you? ;-) > > > >Basically this means that CVS mirroring is impossible and the only > >solution to the current problem is to move the repository elsewhere. > > Is there a solid alternative to sourceforge? One with better backing that > will keep it going if large numbers of projects start using it? > > >I don't know why the silence from the DRI SF project admins - I'm CC'ing > >to them now (at least those currently in the active) in the hope to hear > >what they have to say about this. > > Not so much silence as a lack of answers... > > >I remind again that this issue should be presented to the SF team to > >know what's their position and what to expect from the future. This > >issue [of the unreliable CVS anonymous serving] together with the recent > >news of closing inactive and old projects may well be a sign that SF is > >saturating again, but this time the saturation appears to be fought not > >by further investment, but degrading the quality of the services. If > >true then it's a matter of time to collapse, or at least be unusable for > >big projects such as DRI. > > This is a reasonable proposition -- let's start putting a draft together, > then. > > ------- > > SF admins, > > We're concerned about the recent changes to anonymous cvs access, in > particular the way in which changes committed by developers take an > extended period (upto days) to become visible to anonymous cvs users. As > we rely heavily on a test/debug/fix cycle that includes input and > interaction from anonymous cvs users, this delay represents a real > roadblock for our development efforts. Can you outline the reasons that > this has started happening, whether it will be resolved and if so on what > timescale?
I've also just read that this CVS problem is being reverted in August, as it's temporary to reduce load on the primary CVS servers. Alan. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
