Re: move to bitkeeper?

2003-06-30 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030630 17:22]: > sourceforge is really having trouble nowadays. Half my browsers think the > web pages are to be downloaded for some reason; cvs updates are seeing > 24-hour delays; and random outages are a daily occurence. Worst I saw was about a week of dela

Re: move to bitkeeper?

2003-06-30 Thread Ian Castle
You seem to be conflating two separate issues: 1) Source Forge is failing 2) CVS needs to be replaced 1. This may or may not be true - it seems to be working OK at the moment for me (I commit to other projects than Linuxbios - which are probably less active). But I would agree that SF is probabl

Re: move to bitkeeper?

2003-06-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sourceforge is really having trouble nowadays. Half my browsers think the > web pages are to be downloaded for some reason; cvs updates are seeing > 24-hour delays; and random outages are a daily occurence. Agreed. So something needs to be done. > I

Re: move to bitkeeper?

2003-06-30 Thread Clark Rawlins
It prevents the person from using the prefered tools of the project to contribute to the project. So when someone wants to get the latest sources and there is no daily snapshot tarball the user either has to fork over $4K (I think it costs that much I haven't checked recently) or violate the lic

Re: move to bitkeeper?

2003-06-30 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Clark Rawlins wrote: > The real problem with Larry's policy is that if you work on > any other SCM code free or not you must buy the full version > of the tools. That would lock out some of us who have worked > on subversion/cvs/etc who want to work on LinuxBIOS. that locks

Re: move to bitkeeper?

2003-06-30 Thread Clark Rawlins
The real problem with Larry's policy is that if you work on any other SCM code free or not you must buy the full version of the tools. That would lock out some of us who have worked on subversion/cvs/etc who want to work on LinuxBIOS. Before making the jump to bitkeeper a real consideration of t

Re: move to bitkeeper?

2003-06-30 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Peter Busser wrote: > The most heard objection against bitkeeper is that it is not free software. yeah, but that's actually ok by me. It's good software, and Larry's source policy is actually very reasonable. Plus he has a viable business, which means that they will probabl

Re: move to bitkeeper?

2003-06-30 Thread Peter Busser
Hello! > Anyone have anything to say about this, pro or con? The most heard objection against bitkeeper is that it is not free software. Aegis (aegis.sourceforge.net) is free software. Groetjes, Peter Busser -- The Adamantix Project Taking trustworthy software out of the labs, and into the rea

Re: move to bitkeeper?

2003-06-30 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:22, ron minnich wrote: > Any comments or objections to me at least looking into a move to > bitkeeper.com? It has lots of advantages, not the least that it supports > distributed repositories. Things with Sourceforge are obviously only going to get worse, as VA is in t

Re: move to bitkeeper?

2003-06-30 Thread Andrew Ip
Hi Gregg, > > Now the other question. Ron, which browsers are telling you this? I > > can view all of the project pages without difficulty, on MSIE, and the > > version of Netscape delivered on Slackware 8.0, also with the browsers > > that came with Gnome. > opera (latest) > konqueror (3.0.5a-4)

RE: move to bitkeeper?

2003-06-30 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Gregg C Levine wrote: > Now the other question. Ron, which browsers are telling you this? I > can view all of the project pages without difficulty, on MSIE, and the > version of Netscape delivered on Slackware 8.0, also with the browsers > that came with Gnome. opera (latest)

RE: move to bitkeeper?

2003-06-30 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Good question. However, I haven't had any problems visiting the project pages for the project. I agree, that the CVS stores indicate that there's an unnecessary delay of about a day, but that's only on the view function for CVS. They say that the problems are being correct