On 11-06-06 at 09:18am, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:17:03AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 20:56:25 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The majority of published references to VCS repositories are URLs > > > for anonymous access. Also regular Alioth users will be more > > > aware of the Alioth reconfiguration than others, and will know > > > that they need to change the read-write/push URLs. Therefore I > > > think it is more important that the URLs for anonymous access > > > continue to work. > > > > I concur. In addition there's way less committers (with their > > respective clones, chekouts, etc) than current anonymous cloned > > trees. > > In general I'd agree but I think it's too late now to switch back. I > for one already started to change Vcs-* fields, fix checkouts etc. > where needed. Other people did so aswell. My guess is that we're in > the middle of this nice epic chaos and switching back now would make > it even worse. On the other hand there are all these packages in > stable with broken Vcs fields now. Still not nice but assuming that > most contributions will be based on what's in unstable that might be > bearable.
I think that switching back even when some have already adapted is still the best approach (if technically sensible to revert at all!): I don't mean to punish early adopters, but places with links difficult to change should in my opinion take priority, as early adopters likely can also early revert. Regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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