Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: > As already announced on debian-devel-announce@l.d.o, alioth will be down > during the upcomming weekend. Does anyone have som good advice on how to > work around this. I know our translators had some nice script to work in > an off-site repository. but I dont know ... Well first of all, it doesn't affect the skolelinux repository in cvs.skolelinux.no, since that is hosted on developer. It does affect debian-edu's repository however. There was some discussion on irc yesterday about using this downtime as an opportunity to convert the debian-edu repository from cvs to subversion. Since the subversion server for alioth is hosted on a machine in the Netherlands, it will not be subject to the downtime, so the new subversion repository would be available for the developer meeting. We could also take the opportunity to switch to using a hostname that we control for the debian-edu repository, so if we had to temporarily relocate it, or move it off of alioth later for any reason we could do so easily. The third benefit of course is that one of the last three projects I'm involved in that don't use svn would convert to svn. ;-) I've coordinated many such conversions before and would be happy to do this one too. Of course it would require all debian-edu translators and developers to install subversion, plus you would need to have any pending changes committed before the switch, and check out a new working copy from the subversion repository. We would also have to update cvs hook scripts to work with subversion, update any documentation that refers to using cvs to access the repository, and also update build scripts that contain embedded cvs commands. -- see shy jo
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