[PD-dev] CVS/SVN @ iem (was Re: [GEM-dev] CVS...)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Tue, 9 May 2006, geiger wrote:
>
>> AFAIK there are currently no concrete offers, but IEM is a candidate. We
>> can also switch to any other (probably not so famous and therefore
>> faster) free version control sites such as Berlios
>> (http://developer.berlios.de/) or Savannah (http://savannah.nongnu.org/)
>
> Apparently Savannah requires GPL/LGPL, so we can't use it. Are there such
> restrictions on Berlios?
>
>> It only solves the problem if svn on sourceforge is more stable than
>> CVS.
>
> People on the tcl-core list are afraid that other services than CVS could
> stop working in the future.
>
>> It would have to be a dezentralized system such as monotone
>> http://www.venge.net/monotone/, git (http://git.or.cz/) or GNU arch
>> (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/) in order to really affect the
>> problem that we have with sourceforge.
>
> Decentralised systems deal with the problem of outages in general, they
> don't deal with the problem of sourceforge in particular vs another host
> in particular.
>
>> Our main problem currently is that, for whatever reason, sourceforge
>> doesn't keep up with its maintainance. If we move to something different
>> we should make sure that this gets better.
>
> Yes. In particular it's nice if enough people have enough privileges on
> the machine so that we can fix problems ourselves.

But this also means that we _have to_ fix things ourselves, which isn't 
really such a good thing.  The goal is to improve service, not just move 
off of SourceForge.  And tto find out how to do that will take some 
research.  Berlios sounds like a good option to research.

.hc

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