Re: [Boost-users] [1.46.0 beta 1] [SourceForge] SourceForge mirror sync system broken

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [1.46.0 beta 1] [SourceForge] SourceForge mirror sync system broken
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-01 16:30:07

Dean Michael Berris wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>
>>> The SourceForge mirror sync system has broken down. Other projects are
>>> affected, not just Boost.
>>>
>>> The files up there are probably good and the download problems should
>>> clear once the mirrors are synced again, the S/F folks say.
>>>
>>> Some projects say their files are back online, but as of a few minutes
>>> ago the Boost stuff still seemed broken and/or running so slowly as to
>>> be effectively broken.
>>
>> I am sure we can host 1.46 beta off google for the time being, here:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/boost/
>>
>> Let me know if you want me to upload packages there, or whether you want
>> to do that yourself.
>>
> 
> Interesting. Has anybody considered moving the current Subversion
> repository to code.google.com as well? 

Yes, that's why that project was created in the first place.

> I'm positive that especially
> now that they accept pretty much any OSI approved-license project
> there, maybe we can take the SVN administration issue and move that to
> Google's hands instead?

Well, svnsync hates me, and I haven't had the time to investigate
in any detail.

- Volodya

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