Re: [Savannah-hackers] Vesta for savannah?

[nferrier]

Loic Dachary <address@hidden> writes:

>  
>  > Vesta has somewhat of a high learning curve, but maybe will work for us. 
>  > What do you all think? 
>  
>       As always it is a matter of finding someone willing to deal 
> with long term maintenance + support.  
>  
>       For instance, CVS + viewcvs are the most maintenance + support 
> consuming resources offered on Savannah. In average I'd say that Jaime 
> Villate and myself spend 3 hours a week (each of us) dealing with 
> it. Of course there are weeks where nothing needs to be done.  But 
> there also are weeks when I spend a full working day on it. For 
> instance, in the past two weeks I integrated a patch provided by 
> Laurent Julliard, spent some time testing it and monitored the 
> activity to ensure no ill side effect occurs. I also had to move the 
> CVS repository on a different partition to save I/O bandwidth and cope 
> with a partition filling up.  I also had to develop smarter scripts to 
> deal with cvs backups so that cvs trees are not walked entirely for 
> the sole purpose of figuring out if a file was updated. As a result 
> the load average (http://subversions.gnu.org/mrtg/loadavg.html) is now 
> back to normal. And, of course, learning CVS in order to maintain it 
> for savannah.gnu.org required quite a lot of time. I'm sure you see 
> what I mean ;-) 

The other side of this is that there are a number of us who help
maintain CVS in smaller ways, advising users, performing small admin
tasks, etc...

If there was a different system that wouldn't happen for some time
(maybe even a few years) and the burden on the appointed
administrators would be increased.


Nic Ferrier