[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: bzr + savannah.gnu.org slow again

2011-02-27 Thread Paul Eggert
Following up on my previous message, my commit to the Emacs trunk took over 50 minutes (!). Here's the finished .bzr.log entry: Fri 2011-02-25 21:53:48 -0800 0.073 bazaar version: 2.2.2 0.073 bzr arguments: [u'commit', u'-m', u'Merge: lib-src changes mostly to avoid GCC warnings'] 0.096 looki

[Savannah-hackers-public] bzr + savannah.gnu.org slow again

2011-02-27 Thread Paul Eggert
Savannah.gnu.org is very slow for bzr commits on the Emacs trunk, with symptoms much like they were about 24 hours ago. Perhaps the same thing is happening again? My most recent attempt to commit is taking more than 20 minutes. It's not done yet, so I don't know how long it will take exactly. He

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] randy kobes passed away -> ftpmirror redirector

2011-02-27 Thread Michael J. Flickinger
Implementing this now.. this will be testable on gnu-ftpmirror.savannah.gnu.org. Once it's setup, we can have the dns for ftpmirror.gnu.org changed. On 02/26/2011 06:41 PM, Karl Berry wrote: I belatedly learned that Randy Kobes, the person who was running the ftpmirror.gnu.org redirector, pass

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] randy kobes passed away -> ftpmirror redirector

2011-02-27 Thread Michael J. Flickinger
Ok, this is testable now on http://gnu-ftpmirror.savannah.gnu.org Let me know if it works alright. On 02/27/2011 10:51 AM, Michael J. Flickinger wrote: Implementing this now.. this will be testable on gnu-ftpmirror.savannah.gnu.org. Once it's setup, we can have the dns for ftpmirror.gnu.org c

[Savannah-hackers-public] gawk-diffs Digest

2011-02-27 Thread Eli Zaretskii
I received today the first digest of gawk-diffs, thanks. However, the list of topics it shows is not very helpful: Today's Topics: 1. [SCM] UNNAMED PROJECT branch, master, updated. bbbfd0cb5661d96fce8ee9d0323405655a120060 (Arnold Robbins) 2. [SCM] gawk branch, master,

[Savannah-hackers-public] Thanks for GNU Savannah

2011-02-27 Thread Mario Castelan Castro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 2011-02-27 for savannah-hackers-public@gnu.org, Sebastian Gerhardt, Sylvain Beucler and Nicodemo Alvaro thread "Thanks for GNU Savannah". I'm writting this to express my sincere thanks to the current and former Savannah hackers for their work and th

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [Savannah-register-public] project approval

2011-02-27 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi again, On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:43 AM, LynX <_l...@bk.ru> wrote: > Thank you all for your responses. Why I turned to savannah its because: > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/ElispArea#toc5 Yes, it's a good place to host software. > But after Mario Castelan Castro I am not sure where I can h

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [Savannah-register-public] project approval

2011-02-27 Thread Karl Berry
it's the FSF (i.e. Karl Berry) Just for clarification, I'm a GNU volunteer (just like everyone else here), not an FSF employee, and in any case Savannah has always had great independence of decisions. Nor am I the final arbiter of anything :). > But after Mario Castelan Castro I am not

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] randy kobes passed away -> ftpmirror redirector

2011-02-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:20:24 -0500, "Michael J. Flickinger" wrote: > Ok, this is testable now on http://gnu-ftpmirror.savannah.gnu.org > > Let me know if it works alright. I did quick tests on two systems located in Germany, and two located in the USA; all of them gave different but sen

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [Savannah-register-public] project approval

2011-02-27 Thread Yavor Doganov
Alex Fernandez wrote: > Improving Emacs on Windows may look like improving Windows, when seen > by a critical eye; but in the end it is more about improving Emacs > itself. There is little reason to improve Emacs if that improvement is not going to take us closer where we want to go. The GNU proj

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [Savannah-register-public] project approval

2011-02-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Alex Fernandez wrote: > If free software on those > platforms is deliberately handicapped, it will probably not make > people move over to free platforms; instead they will think that free > software is worse than the proprietary alternatives. Also, even the > be

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [Savannah-register-public] project approval

2011-02-27 Thread Valentin Villenave
[Sorry Alex, obviously this message was meant for LynX. Reposting:] -- Forwarded message -- From: Valentin Villenave Date: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:44 AM On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Alex Fernandez wrote: >  If free software on those > platforms is deliberately handicapped,

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] randy kobes passed away -> ftpmirror redirector

2011-02-27 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Michael, Ok, this is testable now on http://gnu-ftpmirror.savannah.gnu.org Wow, incredibly quick work, thanks. It works fine for me too, right now. Did you set up some method for updating it, though? I did not see anything new in the cron jobs, but I certainly could have missed it. The m

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] randy kobes passed away -> ftpmirror redirector

2011-02-27 Thread Michael J. Flickinger
Currently the list is hosted on the download vm with the mirror list here: /usr/local/share/GeoIP/gnu-ftpmirror.txt, as you've already found. I'll write a script to update the mirror daily (later tonight, I hope.) One problem here is that the Apache2::Geo::Mirror module only loads the mirror lis

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] randy kobes passed away -> ftpmirror redirector

2011-02-27 Thread Karl Berry
One problem here is that the Apache2::Geo::Mirror module only loads the mirror list upon initialization of Apache, Wow. That would explain a lot of things where users keep reporting outdated mirrors no longer in the list, etc. I think the most sane thing to do here is subclass Apach

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [Savannah-register-public] project approval

2011-02-27 Thread Michael J. Flickinger
Karl Berry wrote: As I say above, it's not up to me to make final decisions -- I think we should try to reach a consensus. (Before changing guidelines, we should at least hear from Michael and Jim, who have done much more than me with savannah internals.) My personal view at the moment is that