linuxaudio.org

On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 14:09 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:

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> On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 04:50:44AM -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:

> > Gene Heskett wrote:

> > >On Thursday 20 April 2006 16:01, Lee Revell wrote:

> > >>On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:51 -0400, Dana Olson wrote:

> > >>>SourceForge is pretty reliable, and I don't see it going

> > >>>down any time soon

> > >>LOL

> > >I wonder what Dana has been smoking?  If I still smoked, I'd like to

> > >sample that.  I know of one project that left in the last month, mainly

> > >because cvs only worked a few hours a week.  Life's too short for that

> > >BS.

> >

> > There are reasons jackaudio.org and ardour.org now exist. As I

> > understand it, sourceforge's persistent cvs access difficulties played

> > no small part in those moves.

>

> My experience with sourceforge leads me to tentatively conclude:

>

> If you have a low-priority project that you work on intermittently,

> with maybe a few other developers, and you don't want to bother with

> setting up any infrastructure (i.e. public repositories and trackers),

> it's very very useful.  I'm involved with a couple of projects like

> this.

>

> If you live and breathe some particular project(s), you *will* get bit

> by sourceforge service outages and the inability to really tweak the

> infrastructure to your needs.

And the insanely long anonymous CVS lag.
-DR-