[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: Eclipse CVS repo archives mirrored anywher

[Denis Roy <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/08/2009 05:00 AM, James Blackburn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First apologies if this is the wrong forum -- it seemed to be the most
> appropriate to reach an eclipse foundation admin :).
>
> I was wondering if the Eclipse CVS archives (as available on
> archive.eclipse.org/arch) are mirrored anywhere?
>
> The tar'd directories don't seem to be much larger than an Operating
> System DVD, so it would seem a sensible thing have mirrored.
>
> Cheers,
> James


Hi,

The entire directory is 17G, and it is completely regenerated every 
weekend.  I can't imagine that many people download all of that, so if 
we introduce it into our mirroring system, we would be transferring 17G 
x 40 mirrors every week.