[PATCH] Re: picking a date for subversion migration

[jerry gay]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:39, chromatic <chromatic at wgz.org> 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've contacted osuosl about an rsync mirror, and they seem to think
it'll be quite easy to set up with their existing infrastructure, so i
created a ticket for that.

~jerry