[Gllug] Sourceforge CVS

[Nix]

On 07 Jul 2003, Rich Walker spake:
> Nix <nix at esperi.demon.co.uk> writes:
>> On 17 Jun 2003, Rich Walker mused:
> [snip]
>> > I get this sometimes with anon. checkout. AFAICR there are some notes on
>> > the sourceforge CVS to the effect that anon. checkout may be bumped in
>> > favour of registered users when the system is busy. Try again in 30
>> > seconds; if that doesn't work, keep trying.... 
>> 
>> No, that's not what they've done. The anonymous CVS is
>> 
>> 1) load-limited; if the load average on the server goes too high it
>>    drops connections without connecting them to the CVS server
> 
> Okay
> 
>> 2) on the backup CVS box, so one day behind.
> 
> Well, that's not necessarily a grave problem for The Rest Of Us.

It's a bit annoying if you're trying to track a project closely yet
aren't a developer. (One could become one, I guess, and this problem has
prodded me into becoming one on a couple of such projects, but even so.)

>> Plus it's deeply irritating.
> 
> This I don't understand. Elucidation, please?

The notification of this problem was, well, appalling. I only learnt
what the EOFs signified and that they were intentional in May, by which
point I'd already had to waste a good bit of time rejigging CVS-updating
scripts to handle CVS servers that randomly EOF.

(No, checking the exit code isn't good enough; CVS returns non-0 under a
good number of circumstances which can't be fixed by sleep-and-retry...)

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