From: Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 02:37:02 +0100
just do make my position clear: I was not critizing your decision. My
feeling was just that we could have built a similar framework on
available resources with substantial interest and a little effort.
As long as it helps Gimp development I'm all for it. (That's why I
pointed Dirk to your project).
Possibly, but is it worth the effort? VA Linux Systems is backing
SourceForge with some fairly serious hardware (see
https://sourceforge.net/docs/site/hardware.php) and staffing
resources; they have 5 people managing the site. They have a dozen
machines that I'd guesstimate are about $50K-$100K of hardware (RAID
boxes and fast tape drives aren't cheap), and they've put a lot of
programming effort behind it. They're basically running a small scale
data center operation. I have yet to see any sign of downtime on the
entire system.
I'd argue if anything that it would be worthwhile for the Gimp to move
*its* operation to SourceForge, just to save on the system
administration and backup headaches. It's always possible to mirror
the CVS repository and other important stuff elsewhere (I'm taking a
snapshot of gimp-print's repository every night as insurance myself).
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