Re: [Gnu-arch-users] self-contained changesets?

[Tupshin Harper]

Tom Lord wrote:

>    > From: Joshua Haberman <address@hidden>
>
>    > Arch seems to require that anyone who wants to make their personal
>    > changes available to the world have access to a publically available
>    > server to host their personal archive.  Is this a safe assumption?
>
> Mostly I think it is -- but that doesn't mean that it isn't worth
> providing support for when the assumption is false.   It's also not
> quite the case that arch requires that -- although the ways in which
> it doesn't require it should probably be made more featureful.
>
> Would you agree that email and netnews provide the other two most
> obvious transports?
>  
Mail, certainly; netnews possibly. But don't overlook the convenience 
factor of making it easy for one person (maybe the project lead) to host 
archives/branches for other people, and giving only those people write 
access to their archives. Since arch doesn't have its own server and 
uses other mechanisms (webdav, sftp, etc), this is not strictly an arch 
issue. But howtos and prefab setup scripts for configuring a server to 
be either a primary archive or a mirror archive for a remote user would 
help alleviate this issue.

-Tupshin