[Savannah-dev] Re: [DotGNU]SourceForge drifting

[David Sugar]

I fully agree, and this was also my thought in this regard...

David

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r) wrote:

> Matthew Copeland wrote:
> >
> > The big problem with a distributed architecture wuith regards to project
> > maintenance is handling data backups.  One of the big bonuses of
> > centralization of source code is easy backup.  If everything is
> > distrubted, you have to worry about your local group doing proper backups.
> > So, if you went a distrubted route, it would probably be a good idea to
> > make it so that data automatically migrates between servers to a series of
> > master servers that have the diskspace and the backup equipment to back it
> > all up, or provide as part of the installation describe how to do all of
> > the backups.
>
> This simply means that you must be responsible for picking a responsible
> host. I think the choice is important enough that its very worth it.
> If you have a centralized solution, and for some reason (finiacial, a
> fire, an earthquake, war) they collapse, then everyone goes down with
> them.
> I think that its proven that lots of smaller organizations provide for
> stability better than one big group who becomes too powerful.
>
> Seek3r
>