Re: [Refdb-devel] Re: CVS vs. Subversion
Markus Hoenicka <[email protected]>
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"Michael(tm) Smith" <[email protected]> was heard to say: > Their estimate appears to be that they'll have the CVS service > available again late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. > Thanks, it's good to have an estimate. > The description of the "single point of failure" architecture of > the CVS service doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in the > long-term stability of the service. Even before this outage, it > has been pretty spotty all along anyway -- inaccessible > intermittently for short periods (and relatively long ones too). > I noticed that too. This was one of the most annoying problems of SF so far. > Anyway, it definitely provides some additional incentive to move > to their Subversion service instead. Some wags have even suggested > that the outage was carefully planned to scare project admins away > from the CVS service and over to the Subversion service (because > the CVS service is a drain on support resources and they want to > minimize the number of projects using it). I only wish I thought > they were quite that smart. > Actually I figured that too, but I thought I was just paranoid. Thanks Markus -- Markus Hoenicka [email protected] (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642