Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Read-only files in www's CVS repository

[Yavor Doganov]

At Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:11:30 +0200,
Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It turns out that somebody activated 'cvs watch on' at a point.
> This on a CVS feature

Yeah, I know about this "feature" but thought it was disabled somehow
at Savannah.  If I understand correctly, anyone can activate it by
accident?  I think I'm beginning to realize why so many people dislike
CVS...

> This creates CVS/fileattr files on the server, which is how I spotted
> the issue.

Many thanks for this, as usual.

I see now that new checkouts are rw, but existing working copies are
still 444, although any new modifications of those files immediately
make them 644.  That's not a problem.

> However, was there progress with renaming the translation project
> webpages? I think the renaming stalled there.

Still waiting for the sysadmins.  Sometimes it takes time.