Re: Savannah web interface to CVS repositories is down

On 2026-02-03 08:10, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I was able to update standards.texi by hand, and the script needs to be
> run only once per release of Autoconf, so a fix is not urgent.

One possible fix is to sync with Gnulib's Git copy instead, which you 
can get here:

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/plain/doc/standards.texi

You don't need to use HTTPS; you can grab the Gnulib repository via Git 
and take it from there.

Using the downstream Git copy of standards.texi delegates the CVS hassle 
to the Gnulib folks. The idea is that it's better to have just one team 
deal with CVS hassles rather than have multiple downstream projects deal 
with it independently.

Projects should avoid CVS when possible, as it's obsolete and it 
discourages new contributors. Many years ago I asked the Savannah 
hackers to move the web stuff from CVS to Git, but evidently these 
things take time.