[U-Boot] u-boot repository mirror and gerrit on Google inftrastructure

[Vadim Bendebury]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Vadim Bendebury,
>
> In message <CANy1buLO6a_VNVHBqdLbCaHP5Xg4+djch258THKeW3-Xi1TDdw at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>> Just wanted to let everybody know that there has been a mirror set up
>> on Google infrastructure which polls git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git
>> every 5 minutes.
>
> Every 5 minutes?  Are you crazy???  Please stop doing this now!
> You are just putting a lot of load on our server, thus hampering
> regular work.
>
> And it makjes zero sense, as the data on the public server get updated
> only every 6 hours.
>
>>  URL for  browsing is https://u-boot.googlesource.com, and
>> https://u-boot-review.googlesource.com is actually a gerrit instance
>> ready to be used if ever decided.
>
> We discussed this in the past, and decided not to, as it does not fit
> at all into our mainly e-mail based work flow.
>
>
> So please STOP sabotaging our server!
>

Well, I should have asked for details and share the plans before
setting this up. As briefly discussed offline, I will change this to
poll once in six hours soon after each public server update.

cheers,
/vb

> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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> needlessly reinventing the wheel, one spoke at a time. Either you are
> masochistic,  or  you  just haven't seen enough of what CGI.pm can do
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