[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
