Pavel, any news from GNOME people? Are you able to or know someone able to make a tarball of your CVS?
Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello! > > I'd like to move the repository of GNU Midnight Commander from > cvs.gnome.org to subversions.gnu.org > > The issue was discussed on the developers' mailing list > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and there were no objections. > > The reasons as I see them are following: > > 1) GNU Midnight Commander is currently unrelated to the GNOME project. > Neither GNOME is required to build GNU Midnight Commander, not GNU > Midnight Commander is a part of GNOME. > > 2) The developers of GNU Midnight Commander and GNOME are different > people. Permissions of the developers of GNU Midnight Commander, > including write access to the repository, should be managed in a > flexible way by the developers themselves. Savannah provides this > facility, GNOME CVS doesn't. > > 3) pserver access with password is unsafe by design. The password is > trivially encoded when it's transmitted over the network. If more > developers get write access to the project, the risk of compromising the > code becomes unacceptable. Unlike GNOME, it's common for GNU Midnight > Commander to be run as root, which increases the risk even more. > > 4) Anonymous access to the GNOME repository is provided by two servers > with the same hostname anoncvs.gnome.org. Those servers are not always > synchronized with the master server. Worse yet, they are not always > synchronized with each other, so "cvs update" may cause downgrading to > an older revision. This has confused contributors more than once. > > I'd like the repository to be transferred directly, but if it's not > possible, please let me know how I can download and upload it. > > Once the repository is transferred, the files on the GNOME side should > be removed using "cvs remove" to preserve history, especially gmc code > needed to build old GNOME. Only the README file should be left with a > message pointing to the new repository location. > > I'm sorry for asking you to spend your precious time on this issue, but > I believe that it's the right thing to do and that it's vital for > keeping GNU Midnight Commander an active project and attracting new > developers without compromising security. > > Some technical details. > > GNU Midnight Commander on Savannah: > https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/mc/ > > The name of the repository on both sides is "mc". > > My login name is "proskin" on GNOME CVS and "proski" on Savannah. > Andrew Samoilov is "andrew" on GNOME CVS and "sav" on Savannah. > Although not critical, I would prefer those two names to be converted if > it can be done safely. > > My public key can be found at http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/proski.key > and on public keyservers. > > -- > Regards, > Pavel Roskin > > _______________________________________________ > Savannah-hackers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
