Re: [gentoo-dev] R/O CVS access and its purpose for ATs (was Email subdomain)

[George Prowse <cokehabit@gmail.com>]

On 23/11/05, Lance Albertson <ramereth@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Daniel Ostrow wrote:
>
> > Lance:
> >
> > I know this is a far cry from what you are proposing, and I understand
> > that the present CVS server cannot handle this sort of load but I
> > believe that this was the original intention at least...someone correct
> > me if I am wrong.
>
> One of the issues we had with direct cvs access is managing all of the
> AT accounts. If we're talking 50-100 ATs, that increases our user
> account management load by a lot considering we only have 300 developers
> right now. The other reason is of course with load on lark itself. We
> can only do so many concurrent cvs up's of the full tree and adding this
> many users concerns me alot with that aspect.
>
> As what kurt said in a followup to this email, If we can nail down that
> the primary need of the GLEP is quick access to changes, that will help
> us a lot in figuring out the logistics of the issue.
>
> I know pylon had talked about the newer cvs allowing for a virtually
> 'live' update to another cvs box via a commit hook, but he's been rather
> busy lately and hasn't had a chance to work on that. I think that has
> the best hope down the road of resolving this GLEP. I would just like to
> keep the management of lark to the minimum if at all possible, so for
> now I would prefer a restricted rsync module or cvs box that gets
> updated every X minutes.
>
> Cheers-
>
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> Lance Albertson <ramereth@gentoo.org>
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What about finding out how many ATs are going to be using it at the
start and limiting the amount of ATs with access to <40-50 until
either a new way for access has been decided on or new equipment has
been brought it. Currently I wouldn't need it because I am without
amd64 equipment until after equipment.

George

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