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.
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