Re: New Home for Xconq Project?

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

Hi Coop,

D. Cooper Stevenson wrote:
> What would happen if we went to SourceForge or Savannah for "eyballs" and 
> pointed to the Xconq.org or RedHat site for a CVS backup?

I think that, in the case of Sourceforge, it would fit closer to their 
[Sourceforge's] philosophy if we, at least, made files available for 
download on their mirrors (via their File Release System). As far as CVS 
goes, I don't know. I think we should try their CVS server first. If it 
doesn't prove reliable, then we can use a CVS server elsewhere 
(xconq.org, perhaps).

> It's trivial for me to mirror the xconq.org server with the source 
> repository's server.

As long as it isn't against their policy and doesn't hog too much 
bandwidth, I think it would be good to have a CVS mirror. When we get to 
that point, I would say to go for it.

> Obviously, this isn't an "automatic failover" solution but would it provide a 
> good compromise?

Well, this gives redundancy from an end user standpoint. As a developer, 
if the main repository is inaccessible, then I am still stuck with 
waiting for it to come back before I can commit changes. Any changes 
committed to a "mirror repository" would have to be 
synchronized/committed to the main server later. Even if such a thing is 
a current technical possibility, it would seem that information 
pertaining to the original committer, original commit date, original 
commit messages, etc... would be lost.

  Regards,
    Eric