Public Access to Perforce?

[Chris BeHanna]

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 15:43, David Rhodus wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:29:05 -0700, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> 
wrote:
> > So you'd be happy if we changed the name of the FreeBSD perforce repo
> > to - say - LibreBSD, and charged people for access?  This would bring
> > it in line with the DragonFly/FireFly model.
>
> You know, that might not be a bad idea you have there, I think you
> might be on to something. Possibly a way fbsd could possibly complete
> it's fine grain locking task ?

    I just want to go on record as distancing myself from the
preposterous notion that a lack of non-committer access to the p4 repo
makes FreeBSD no longer an open-source project.

    I use p4 at work, and I love it.  IMHO, it's far and away superior
to CVS, and the proxies make it possible to offer up-to-the-submission
up-to-dateness to the source tree while minimizing load on the master
server, unlike the "wait an hour for the repo mirror to propagate, and
it might propagate mid-commit" method that exists now.

    My sole motivation is my own convenience.  In return, I have
submitted (and will continue to submit) patches as I am able (thus
far, a few of my patches have made it into the ports tree).  I am also
willing, as I've stated on current@, to donate a portion of the cost
of a new disk, if that's needed, to my local mirror to support running
p4proxy there.

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Chris BeHanna
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