Re: Official GCC git repository

[Angela Marie Thomas <angela at releasedominatrix dot com>]

bernie@codewiz.org wrote:

> Daniel Berlin wrote:
>  > Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> >>  Fair enough.  I hereby volunteer to setup and maintain the git
> >>  mirror on gcc.gnu.org if someone provides me a shell account
> >>  there.
> > 
> > Email overseers@gcc.gnu.org and ask what kind of sponsorship they want
> > to require for a shell account (for write access to repositories, we
> > usually only require 1 sponsor, but these do not give you shell
> > access).
> 
> As stated above, I'd like to request shell access to gcc.gnu.org to 
> setup a git mirror of the GCC svn repository.  I'd also suggest Harvey 
> Harrison as a co-maintainer of the mirror, as he helped setting it up on 
> git.infradead.org.
> 
> At this time, the repository and git-svn metadata take up 2.5GB of disk 
> space.  CPU usage is minimal.  I will just have to install a shell 
> script running from my user crontab.
> 
> We don't require root access for ordinary maintenance, but someone would 
> have to install and configure at least git-daemon and gitweb to make the 
> mirror publicly accessible.
> 
> If it seems too much hassle for the benefit, we'll keep going with the 
> existing git mirror on infradead.org, but I feel it would better serve 
> our users and developers to at least mention it as an official mirror on 
> our web site.

If this happens and it needs to get backed up, I'll need to know where
it lives.  I just installed a beefier server in a colo for backups so
I have the space and bandwidth.

--Angela