Re: [stellation-res] Urgent! Do Not Use Stellation CVS Repository Until

["Jonathan Gossage" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Wright - IBM Research" <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:28 AM
Subject: [stellation-res] Urgent! Do Not Use Stellation CVS Repository Until
Further Notice!


> Our CVS repository has suffered serious damage.
> Mark and I are asking all committers to hold off on any CVS usage until I
> have repaired the damage.
>
> Somehow, the Java files in the HEAD version of virtually all of our
> plug-in projects have been deleted.  (The sole exception is 'unittest').
> Fortunately, the tagged version 'Bugzilla-31370- appears to be intact;
> since that was the most recent version checked in by anyone, I will
> attempt to simply check it back in as the current HEAD version.
>
> We're not sure how this happened.  It's possible that it's somehow related
> to the clean-up of 'bin' folders I performed yesterday, but a) I'm
> virtually positive
> I only touched 'bin' folders and b) some plug-in projects which never
*had*
> checked-in bin folders (and which, therefore, I would not have touched)
> have still lost their Java files.
>
> If anyone can shed some light on this, please do (either publicly or
> privately to Mark or I).
> I will send a followup note to the list once the CVS repository is usable
> again.
>
> - Jim
I have not attempted to access the repository since Monday and that access
was simply to synchronize my local workspace with the repository.

Regards

Jonathan Gossage