> > I understand your reasoning. And if this were an infrastructure at, > > say, Amazon AWS EC2, setup to be elastic and just scaled out then your > > reasoning would be totally on target. Increased load would scale out > > to more parallel resources. It is more typical to have a load > > balancer in front of http/https protocol servers and so those can be > > set up rather straight forward. And also load balancers could be set > > up in front of git:// protocol server too. > > > > However the GNU Project is dedicated and directed to using only Free > > Software. And is hosted in this goal by the FSF. Which means > > everything is self-hosted. Funded by the annual fund raising from > > donors just like all of us who donate funding. And resources are > > limited. > > I want to just chime in and say that from my perspective, limited > resources is the biggest issue. > > Please don't clone emacs from Savannah as part of an automated process > that runs regularly. Setup a mirror or multiple mirrors that get > incremental updates.
I got your message loud and clear. Please remember these parralel clones only happen like once per month, but I get your point. The FSF resources are limited so I'll do my best to hit the git repo only when necessary, with a local clone or another method (I was thinking I could build some images using the .tar.xz bundle instead). Kind regards, Philippe
