sourceware.org's web server is not responding

[Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>]

Hi Alasdair,

[now, I see that it's not specific to LVM2 or your commit/log hook]

I've just committed a tiny LVM2 typo fix like this:

    $ cvs commit -F .msg doc/testing.txt
    Checking in doc/testing.txt;
    /cvs/lvm2/LVM2/doc/testing.txt,v  <--  testing.txt
    new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1
    done

    500 read timeout from http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/LVM2/doc/testing.txt.diff?cvsroot=lvm2&r1=1.1&r2=1.2

Note the final diagnostic.
Between the commit and the diagnostic there was a long delay.

It didn't affect the commit, since your script is run only on the
cvs post-commit log hook, of course, but it is disconcerting to see
a "cvs commit" appear to hang.

I've just dug a little depeer and see that sourceware's web
server is not responding:

    sourceware$ nc -w2 localhost 80
    [Exit 1]

I can't help with that, but overseers (Cc'd) surely can.

Jim

P.S., Once lvm switches to git, it'll be trivial to include the diff output
in the email-to-list message without having to go through a web server.