Hi,
On Wed, 25 May 2011, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> SRV records? Does alioth have any SRV records that might be useful in
> this context? I queried various combinations of 'git', 'svn',
> 'subversion', 'svnserve', 'alioth', 'anonscm', and 'http' in queries
> based on *._tcp.*.debian.org and didn't find any.
There's none currently but the idea is to create _svn._tcp.svn.debian.org
and _git._tcp.git.debian.org if the software supports them.
> With my Subversion upstream hat on, I'd be happy to look at SRV
> records, if you have a clear idea how they would work. I'm very much
> in favor of SRV as a concept. So, we have svn://, http://, https://
> and file://. Which of these should use SRV, and what service names
> should they query? For example, perhaps svn:// should correspond to
> _svn._tcp.{hostname} before it falls back to {hostname}:3690?
svn:// should be enough.
For reference, Julien Cristau came up with this for git:
http://people.debian.org/~jcristau/git-srv-hack.diff
> I'd be reluctant to push for SRV lookups for http:// and https://, as
> that would be a break from what other HTTP and WebDAV clients do.
And it's not needed since http:// already has redirect support...
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