Re: linux-next: no tree for Sept 6

From: Arnaud Lacombe
Date: Tue Sep 06 2011 - 13:29:29 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> With master.kernel.org down, there is not much change from yesterday and
>>> I cannot publish the resulting linux-next tree anyway, so there is no
>>> tree today.
>>>
>> What about github ? gitorious ?
>>
>> If you fork linus' tree on github, you should still be within the disk
>> usage limit. My linux-2.6-next.git bare tree mirror is about 303MB.
>
> Well... that would be helpful if all of the trees that linux-next
> pulls from are hosted somewhere other than kernel.org as well.  A lot
> of them are not, which means you would get an incomplete linux-next
> tree at best.  Probably better to just wait.
>
That's just insane...

git is distributed, but still used centrally. Kernel development
should just not be impacted by such issues.

- Arnaud
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