[Ecls-list] CVS server mess, again

[Erik Huelsmann]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I noticed last night that none of the mirrors were working, the web
> pages were not up to date, etc, etc. There has been a sum of many
> different problems, such as my main server being blacklisted by my
> ISP, Sourceforge suddenly changing the address of shell services and
> forbidding ordinary ssh access, the CVS repository has been locked...
>
> I must admit that I am a bit fed up with the fact that it seems
> impossible to have a robust web and project server that does not
> involve hacking things every now and then... And moreover to force you
> all to update every now and then without knowing whether the update
> will be effective or not.
>
> This has forced me to take another emergency measure. From now on,
> development switches to GIT. Workflow will be as follows:
> - I code.
> - I commit to my own git tree.
> - Changes are pushed to the git repositories at sourceforge and dreamhost.
> - Changes are mirrored into CVS and 15 minutes later get propagated to
> anonymous repository by SF.
>
> Each step may fail, but since I do this manually for every commit I
> will notice when things go wrong.

I'm not sure you want my advice, but: If you want a stable development
platform which allows anonymous access, stay away from CVS: it's very
hard to guarantee CVS access for anonymous users.

(But I see you're already working on it...)

Bye,


Erik.