Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 20:56:25 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 21:15 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > vasks has the copy of the repositories.
> > 
> > wagner NFS mounts the repositories read-only.
> > 
> > vasks is {git,svn,…}.debian.org (so ssh://git.d.o/ continues working),
> > making svn:// and similar protocols work requires TCP proxying.
> [...]
> 
> The majority of published references to VCS repositories are URLs for
> anonymous access.  Also regular Alioth users will be more aware of the
> Alioth reconfiguration than others, and will know that they need to
> change the read-write/push URLs.  Therefore I think it is more important
> that the URLs for anonymous access continue to work.

I concur. In addition there's way less committers (with their respective
clones, chekouts, etc) than current anonymous cloned trees.

thanks,
guillem