Re: [eclipse-mirrors] Re: [carsten@xxxxxxxxx: [ftpsync-eclipse-ftp@ftp]

[Denis Roy <denis.roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/31/2010 04:31 PM, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
>   >When you say "you should pull commits", who is "you" exactly?
>
> The master repository admin, which may or may not be the machine
> admin. It is the role responsible for creating and maintaining the
> directory tree in the master repository.
>    

Eclipse.org servers are run by exactly 2 people -- myself, and the other 
guy sitting next to me.  The two of us are hardware experts, MySQL 
experts, Cisco experts, PHP experts, Apache gurus, Java idiots, Hudson 
masters, and we play a mean minesweeper.  We also support Git, CVS, SVN, 
Bugzilla, Mediawiki, Wordpress and tons of other things that I can't 
even remember.  We're the helpdesk for 16 staff, 1000 committers and 
countless users who send mail to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx.

So I guess I'm the master repository admin too. Great, there goes the 
time I had left to drink beer.



Seriously...  I really appreciate all your feedback but it boils down to 
this:

-> If the mirror is too big, drop a top-level directory or three.  
/eclipse contains the basic SDK, /technology contains the cool packages 
on our main downloads page.  If all you mirror is those two, I'm a happy 
camper!

-> If you can't stand the occasional permissions error, just rsync from 
a public Eclipse rsync such as UK mirror service, OSU OSL or Georgia 
Tech.  You'll never get permissions errors from them.

-> I'll keep doing what I can to keep the mirror as small as possible, 
but the number of Eclipse projects just keeps growing.  I guess that's a 
good sign, really.


Oh, and if you don't hear back from me within a week, please don't 
assume I don't care.


Denis