[PATCH] Re: picking a date for subversion migration

Andy Dougherty doughera at lafayette.edu
Tue Feb 3 20:14:02 UTC 2009


On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, chromatic wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 February 2009 10:42:32 Allison Randal wrote:
> 
> > We don't currently have any plans to maintain an http:// version, rsync
> > mirror snapshots, or nightly tarballs. (On the whole, it was just a bit
> > too much TMTOWTDI. We don't really have people to help newbies out if
> > they run into problems on one of the "non-standard" routes, nor did we
> > ever test the "non-standard" routes.) If this is a significant pain
> > point, let us know and we'll see what we can do.
> 
> An rsync mirror would be very convenient for people who don't update their SVN 
> repositories very often, or who have trouble installing SVN locally.  (Given 
> most of an hour to check out changes from month to month on my PPC laptop or 
> 10 minutes running rsync, I prefer the latter.)

I agree, but I also agree with Allison's implicit estimate that the number 
of people who would actually use rsync is sufficiently small that it might 
not be worth the effort to set it up and maintain it on parrot.org. (I 
don't know enough about the parrot.org set-up to be able to make any 
intelligent estimate of my own of the effort involved.)

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    Andy Dougherty		doughera at lafayette.edu


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