[GRASS-dev] slow access to osgeo svn

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:03:46PM +0100, Patton, Eric wrote:
> >You can easily reach IRC with zero installation through this Web client:
> >
> >http://irc.telascience.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi
> >- select reasonable nick name
> >- select #osgeo
> 
> >Then they can check immediately what's going on.
> 
> >Markus
> 
> A lot of irc protocols are blocked or forbidden behind corporate/government firewalls for some of us (big brother is always watching), so that isn't always an option.

Right.

BTW: OSGeo-SAC just identified one (the?) problem: Sometimes
the CIA service (IRC bot, [1]) is hanging, so SVN waits to
receive CIA timeout. Apparently we can only ask to switch
off CIA notification but I dunno if it is what we want.

Markus

[1] http://cia.vc/stats/project/GRASS