From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6582 invoked by alias); 24 Sep 2007 13:15:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 6546 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Sep 2007 13:15:11 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-174-251-188.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO ednor.cgf.cx) (71.174.251.188) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:15:09 +0000 Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 0D9A22B353; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:15:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:15:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: overseers@sourceware.org, Jim Meyering , Dave Wysochanski , "Alasdair G. Kergon" Subject: Re: Upstream cvs repository corruption? Message-ID: <20070924131507.GA29811@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: overseers@sourceware.org, Jim Meyering , Dave Wysochanski , "Alasdair G. Kergon" References: <1190637220.4431.2.camel@linux-cxyg> <87r6kow6yn.fsf@rho.meyering.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r6kow6yn.fsf@rho.meyering.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q3/txt/msg00105.txt.bz2 On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:04:00PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >I nearly Cc'd Frank about this (to thank him for helping to set up git >recently :-), but thought better of it, and am Cc'ing overseers, instead. > >Of course, the real solution is to switch to git, >but lvm will have to wait a few weeks for that ;-) In the meantime I've noticed quite a few long-running processes owned by you running on sourceware. Having long-running user-owned processes is not really a good practice given the principle of "what happens if he's hit by a bus?" Should your git-related processes be owned by someone other than you? Would that solve both problems? cgf