[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Daniel Berlin wrote: > > Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > >> Fair enough. I hereby volunteer to setup and maintain the git > >> mirror on gcc.gnu.org if someone provides me a shell account > >> there. > > > > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask what kind of sponsorship they want > > to require for a shell account (for write access to repositories, we > > usually only require 1 sponsor, but these do not give you shell > > access). > > As stated above, I'd like to request shell access to gcc.gnu.org to > setup a git mirror of the GCC svn repository. I'd also suggest Harvey > Harrison as a co-maintainer of the mirror, as he helped setting it up on > git.infradead.org. > > At this time, the repository and git-svn metadata take up 2.5GB of disk > space. CPU usage is minimal. I will just have to install a shell > script running from my user crontab. > > We don't require root access for ordinary maintenance, but someone would > have to install and configure at least git-daemon and gitweb to make the > mirror publicly accessible. > > If it seems too much hassle for the benefit, we'll keep going with the > existing git mirror on infradead.org, but I feel it would better serve > our users and developers to at least mention it as an official mirror on > our web site.
If this happens and it needs to get backed up, I'll need to know where it lives. I just installed a beefier server in a colo for backups so I have the space and bandwidth. --Angela
