In the last years, cvsgui did grow exponentially. We need to find a proper solution for the
web hosting of the project.
3d.com & Strata Software are going to host the html site. They already offered many
internet resources for the WinCvs/MacCvs/gCvs project during these past years, including
the cvs repository, Bugzilla and the new Bonzai system. MacCvs, WinCvs and gCvs started
all in Strata Software, thanks to Gary Bringhurst the tech leader and technical VP of Strata
who initially assigned me on enhancing the initial port of cvs on Macintosh and then decided
to give away the initial MacCvs client under the Gnu Public License.
The CvsGui project is a complete volunteer project. It has been started with MacCvs in 1996 by
Mike Ladwig, Matthias Neeracher and Alexandre Parenteau. Then in 1997 came WinCvs and in
2000 gCvs. Today the project counts between 8 and 10 regular developers on several platforms
with contributions of many others. The total number of people relying on a regular basis on the clients
WinCvs/MacCvs/gCvs is believed to be between 10,000 and 40,000 developers worldwide.
The CvsGui project now needs contributions from its users : we are basically asking for ftp mirrors
around the world. In order to avoid the current situation (one of our major site cannot handle
anymore the bandwidth of the site), we need to find between 10 and 15 ftp site worldwide (5 in
North America, 3 in Europe, 2 in Asia).
We also are going to restrain the distribution of binaries and sources to the most recent version.
Thanks to the recent cvs repository, it’s not necessary anymore for whose who want to contribute to
download each time the whole source code.
If you want to contribute a little part of your ftp server to the CvsGui project, please send me an
email along with these informations :
– Technical contact for the ftp server (name and email)
– Location in the world (country and region)
– Business or University name and web adress (I personnaly will verify that : for obvious reasons,
I don’t want the cvsgui users to be hosted by some “weird kind of” business).
– Bandwidth expected
– Additional requests
The general form of the URL to provide has to be something like :
ftp://youradress.com/pub/mirrors/cvsgui (and not “WinCvs”).
The master site to ftp from is (you use cron nightly typically in order to mirror it) :
ftp://cvsgui.sourceforge.net/pub/cvsgui (between 50-100 Mb)