Re: Suggestion re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree

Larry McVoy
2002-04-21T18:20:21Z

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:59:55PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:54:37AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:48:51PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Can you get the bkbits.net interface to spit out text/plain GNU-style
> > > patches?
> >
> > Not on bkbits.net. It eats up too much bandwidth.
>
> Your bkbits.net web interface _already_ spits out HTML-ized patches.
> It _reduces_ bandwidth to spit them out as text/plain.

I know it does and people use it to casually browse the tree, not as an
update mechanism. What you are talking about is something which makes
BK a GNU patch server. A useful thing, I can imagine, but it isn't
happening on bkbits.net unless someone offers to pick up the cost of
another T1 line. $800/month.

As it is we share the T1 line that bkbits.net uses with everything else,
including our voice over IP phone system. I can definitely tell when
someone does something on bkbits, it tends to garble the phone.
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