Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone.ca can now be used as a server

[Richard Levitte]

In message <address@hidden> on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:22:46 -0700, Nathaniel Smith 
<address@hidden> said:

njs> On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 03:13:08AM +0200, Richard Levitte wrote:
njs> > because of the current trouble reaching venge.net, I've set up
njs> > monotone.ca to be an alternate server.  Everyone who has signed
njs> > a cert in the monotone set of branches has write access, since
njs> > it's reasonably likely that those signators also have write
njs> > access for venge.net.
njs> 
njs> Back in town, it looks like the problem at this point is just
njs> that venge.net crashed/got rebooted 4 days ago, and the netsync
njs> server didn't restart automatically.
njs> 
njs> Discussion question: should I restart it, or shall we just call
njs> monotone.ca the official server?

Nothing can stop you from restarting if you want ;-).

I would like to set up a cluster of servers, and I can definitely see
monotone.ca and venge.net as the first starting points, if you want.

As it is right now, I can easily set up monotone.ca to mirror
venge.net (it kind of does, but the mirror isn't pushed into the
published database, yet, it's basically only used to post
notifications).  I intend to hack the clustering scripts to make use
of the new server initiated sync/push/pull hook, which would make this
kind of thing even easier in the future.

What needs to be figured out is a way to synchronise read-permissions
and write-permissions.  I'm assuming that a separate database and
server that only contains that kind of information could be a way to
move the data around.  When I come to think of it, maybe this is the
boot that will finally kick our asses into finally implementing policy
branches?  ;-)

Cheers,
Richard

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