[Savannah-hackers] Re: Licence question

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:26:44AM -0600, Richard Stallman wrote:

> Rather than have one Savannah for the US and another for Europe,
> wouldn't it be ideal if we could have a single Savannah for both?
> It would give the best possible access to people in either continent.

It certainly would be good.
I regard having the choice of the main location of the project
as another advantage.

> Would the French govt people be happy with that arrangement?

Btw: I expect similiar doubts to be present at German govt people, too.

In the long term I think that it is reasonable to tell each country
that they should have (and found) such a savannah project as a public free
software library to address all these concerns.

> Of course, there is one advantage to having separate machines:
> they could handle twice the number of total projects.

Having the choice of the main location would make the other server a 
second access point or a backup.


        Savannah Europe                 Savannah USA
        ---------------                 ------------
        
        European hosted projects        --> access to european h projects

        access to usa h projects  <--   USA hosted projects

If we want a solution like this, it will have two major
technical advantages:

        - We can implement the first version fast,
        because for the beginning, access functions do not need to 
        be perfect and can improved slowly. So we start with a
        simple mirroring and will have solved all the problems
        without getting cvs double access and sync possibilities 
        developed.

        - If we get more savannahs in different parts of the earth,
        we are more flexible in choosing backups and capacities, 
        because not all servers need to be a second access for all projects.

        Example:


        S(avannah) USA          S Europe        S Asia          S Africa

        USA                     b(ackup)        b

        b                                       b               Africa

        b                       b               Asia
        
        b                       Europe                          b

My humble 0.02 Euro..
        Bernhard


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