From: Sven Neumann <neumanns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 02:37:02 +0100 just do make my position clear: I was not critizing your decision. My feeling was just that we could have built a similar framework on available resources with substantial interest and a little effort. As long as it helps Gimp development I'm all for it. (That's why I pointed Dirk to your project). Possibly, but is it worth the effort? VA Linux Systems is backing SourceForge with some fairly serious hardware (see https://sourceforge.net/docs/site/hardware.php) and staffing resources; they have 5 people managing the site. They have a dozen machines that I'd guesstimate are about $50K-$100K of hardware (RAID boxes and fast tape drives aren't cheap), and they've put a lot of programming effort behind it. They're basically running a small scale data center operation. I have yet to see any sign of downtime on the entire system. I'd argue if anything that it would be worthwhile for the Gimp to move *its* operation to SourceForge, just to save on the system administration and backup headaches. It's always possible to mirror the CVS repository and other important stuff elsewhere (I'm taking a snapshot of gimp-print's repository every night as insurance myself). -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
