From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-08-03T08:02:53+09:00
Subject: Re: is rubyforge down ?

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 01:27:10 +0900, Tom Copeland wrote:

>> > > BTW: what were your ISP fixing during the scheduled downtime ?
>> > 
>> > I'm not sure... their email just said "upgrading and maintenance"...
>> 
>> I'll bet it was the Cisco flaw. ISPs everywhere, 
>> including Time-Warner, were rushing to fix it 
>> quietly before anyone could exploit it. Or so I
>> hear.

What must not happen, happens.


> Rich and I set up a ping-o-matic to keep an eye on RubyForge; if the
> connection goes away again at least we'll know when and for how long it
> was down.

Really nice.. stability and robustness.

AFAIK, there exists some version-control-systems which is capable
of doing offline-commits. Everytime I cannot get in touch with the
central CVS-server, I wish myself a cvs-replacement which has this
feature :-)

Do you consider other version control systems than CVS for RubyForge ?

 
> Incidentally, I changed the display name of the RubyForge "ruby mirror"
> project to "Ruby Release Mirror".  It's climbing rapidly up the download
> stats chart :-)
> 
> http://rubyforge.org/top/toplist.php?type=downloads

Yes alot of changes is going on in the 'Top Project Downloads'.

(67) RMagick
(52) AEditor
(38) jabber4r Jabber client library for Ruby
(20) Vapor
(17) Vim/Ruby Configuration Files

My AEditor is doing pretty good for a 'alpha' stage project... wow :-)
http://rubyforge.org/projects/aeditor/

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Simon Strandgaard