Re: [Refdb-devel] Re: [Refdb-users] CVS vs. Subversion

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

"Michael(tm) Smith" <sm...@si...> 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


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