Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > > I could make some comment about this being a good example of one of
> > > the zillion little problems we've had to solve but if I go there it's
> > > going to start a flame war.  So I won't.  I will note that none of the
> > > solutions proposed come close to being acceptable, they all fail on NFS
> > > and on SMB shares.  And they don't cascade properly as HPA has noted.
> > 
> > Absolutely. Bk is, undeniably, brilliant, and would solve all these problems 
> > at a stroke, except that the open source community cannot with good 
> > conscience exclude *anyone* from being able to access the sources.
> 
> But noone is excluded from having access to the sources.
> 
> I suppose it sounds like we don't want to give out more free engineering
> but let's put things into perspective.  The CVS server has about 6
> users.

I do not know where you got that number, but its wrong. You cited 6
unique IP addresses... I certainly did updates from more than
_that_. But I use time rsync -zav --delete
rsync.kernel.org::pub/scm/linux/kernel/bkcvs/linux-2.5 ., so I'm
probably not counted in your statistics.

									Pavel

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