Do you still need CTM?

[Andre Albsmeier]

On Wed, 19-Aug-2015 at 15:01:16 +0200, Helge Oldach wrote:
> Wed Aug 19 02:11:23 UTC 2015:
> > I just received an email from one of the FreeBSD people telling me
> > that they are worried about the security threat posed by CTM.  They
> > would like to disconnect it from the base FreeBSD system.
> > 
> > Personally I have become extremely happy with using subversion, and if
> > CTM were to disappear, I could live without it very easily.
> 
> The main benefit of CTM is that it requires much less disk space than subversion, as subversion stores almost the same amount of meta data (.svn/pristine directory) on disk as is needed for the tree itself, while with CTM you just have the tree and nothing else.

Same here. My stuff lives on old SCSI disks (probably not as old as CTM,
but close to ;-)). And if these disks fail, I've got some more ;-).
CTM is small. It's lightweight. It works. No fat connection to the
outside world needed.

I don't know which security threats CTM poses but apparently there must
be some. However, I never had problems with them ;-). And I can't see
how it will be more secure if CTM or its mailinglist isn't hosted on
FreeBSD servers anymore but somewhere else.

I'd like to see CTM to continue to exist but as I can't supply a server
or a mailinglist I just have to wait and see what will happen...

Thanks for keeping CTM alive -- and if not, thanks for having supported
it for such a long time. But if it must die, please give us a few weeks
so we can establish some subversion infrastructure...

	-Andre

> 
> Kind regards
> Helge
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