Re: [fetchmail-devel] SVN woes :-(

[Rob F. <rf...@fu...>]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> I've been rather patient with BerliOS in the past weeks, but their
> service level isn't acceptable.

I tend to agree.  I hold myself back from getting too upset with them by 
remembering that they're providing a free service.

> Since last week, I'm (yet again!) unable to log into svn.berlios.de, so
> no developer access SVN for me, and my local SVN refuses to switch to
> anonymous SVN...

At the moment my access seems fine.  I'm hoping to get back to work on 
fetchmail later this week.

> It's now four days since I've filed "still doesn't work" -- add to that
> the constant crashing of the data bases and a minor flaw in the SVN web
> pages with major effect (the URLs lack the trailing /trunk/) that hasn't
> been addressed in weeks.

I'm willing to forgive the /trunk thing.  The totally ignored support 
requests bother me, as does the extended inaccessability.

> This isn't acceptable, how is development going to happen if we need to
> recover the data base frequently, are cut off the SVN for several days
> and so on?

I wonder how much of this is subversion not really being ready, and how 
much is Berlios not really being ready.

> Can someone offer or recommend a more reliable Subversion hosting at
> another site?

If anyone comes up with anything I'd be happy to hear about it.

Sigh.

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