[darcs-users] darchaeology, and other darcs tools

Nicolas Pouillard nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 20:25:37 UTC 2008


Excerpts from David Roundy's message of Wed Mar 26 21:15:24 +0100 2008:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 05:36:16PM +0000, Eric Kow wrote:
> > > I still think that we shouldn't put tools into the darcs repository
> > > that we aren't willing to support.  For instance, I'd rather take
> > > darcs.cgi out than add darcsweb in.  (No, this isn't a threat to take
> > > darcs.cgi out, but merely to point out that just because it's
> > > distributed with darcs doesn't mean it works... as discovered recently
> > > when someone tried to use darcs.cgi.)
> > 
> > Would a dedicated/standalone darcs-contrib repository be useful? (we
> > could move darcs.cgi there).  I suppose we could use a cursory-review
> > model, where we basically push in anything that looks like it was
> > submitted in good faith.
> 
> Moving darcs.cgi would definitely be nice.  I'd rather not include server
> software with darcs that might introduce a remote vulnerability.
> 
> > Maybe it would help for collecting a bunch of little scripts that
> > nobody really wants to maintain.
> > 
> > I have no opinion on the matter.  Zooko: if you think this may be a good
> > idea, would you be willing to take care of it?  I guess we could host it
> > on darcs.net if David agrees.
> 
> That's reasonable, but I'd also rather not have to expand the number of
> people that we give accounts to.  Perhaps someone else could be in charge
> of this? In my opinion it'd certainly be nicer to avoid giving me yet more
> adminning work, and previous experience suggests that when someone
> volunteers to take admin something, sooner or later they stop, and then I
> have to do it (or it just goes unmaintained, which sometimes doesn't
> hurt).
> 
> I lost the repository of cvs2darcs when we changed servers on darcs.net.  I
> thought it was completely unmaintained, but as it turns out (I just found
> out a week ago) I lost the history of two years of work.  I thought that I
> had saved everything from the old server, but apparently I didn't.  The
> point being that I'm not a particularly good sysadmin, and I don't
> particularly want to be one, and I'd rather have fewer rather than more
> resources under my control.  Doesn't Zooko have a server? I'd be happy to
> point contrib.darcs.net at his server.

Moreover increasing the load of the darcs.net server should be avoided.

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai
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