new CVS repository for KDevelop?

[jbb]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> Sandy Meier wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > At the moment I got many requests for a CVS account on the KDevelop
> > sourcecodes. I would really like to give that, but you know that the KDevelop
> > repository is located at cvs.kde.org, so we must ask everytime the KDE people
> > for a new account. :-(
> > And there is an other problem with the current situation. In the next time we
> > want to change the directory structure of KDevelop (Stefan send a request some
> > weeks ago), unfortunaly we have no direct access to the kdevelop repository, so
> > we will lose the CVS information if we move the files.:-(
> > 
> > So I would suggest that we set up a new repository on the same server as our
> > homepage CVS. (barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de) .  There are "many"
> > projects already on this server (kmud, kproftp,GREAT,.fara homepage, kdevelop
> > homepage) and it seems to be very stable. :-)
> > 
> > What do you think??
> > 
> > Ciao!
> > Sandy
> > 
> 
> That's ok...
> As far as we shouldn't "loose" too much the contact to the KDE team... 
> I suggest to offer the KDE people to backup the new CVS path to allow
> users the cvsup possibility from the cvsup.kde.org, too.

If you lose cvsup then that would be a concern. Hopefully, Walters' suggestion
would be ok.

BTW what about rsync? I know nothing about this, other than it's fast on the
qt2.1 sources.

> 
> And I would also try to make a backup of this CVS on one of our servers,
> to grant
> access also from another machine.
> (My hardware-limitations didn't allow to mirror the whole cvsup.kde.org
> ;-(, but I think the
> "Potsdam"-path wouldn't be a problem for our server ;-))
> 
> 
> Ciao
> Walter
-- 
Regards,

jbb
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