Re: Is there no more need of our xemacs-beta mirror?
Gunnar Evermann <ge204(a)eng.cam.ac.uk> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
Didier Verna <verna(a)inf.enst.fr> writes:
> M Schmidt writes:
>
M> What I would like to know is: If there is no more need of it or
M> almost none then feel free to send me any message whether I may
M> kick off our xemacs-beta mirror.
Whether you keep the mirror or not is up to you. We appreciate your
efforts.
I think the beta directory is now mirrored by a couple of the
general
ftp.xemacs.org mirrors. Most testers probably switched to CVS anyway.
That's my impression.
> Perhaps a cvs mirror would be more usefull now (though I have no
idea
> how this can be done).
Is cvsup the right tool for this? A secure brute force method of
distributing the CVS tree read-only could be had with rsync. That
wouldn't solve the problem of allow commits from the mirror though.
> As I did with your ftp mirror, I would be the one to
> use it.
Indeed, a CVS mirror somewhere in Europe would be great! I was
hoping
Lars would eventually do something like that on 'quimby'... But a
mirror on one of the European academic networks would probably be much
better for most beta testers (and avoids the trip via NewJersey).
Sounds good. I've been getting the most recent Linux kernel updates
from the Norway and Finland mirrors -- they're fast even coming back
across the Atlantic.