Public Access to Perforce?

[Mathieu Arnold]

+-Le 18/08/2004 14:03 -0400, Chris BeHanna a dit :
| On Monday 16 August 2004 02:05, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
|> On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 01:04:03AM -0400, Chris BeHanna wrote:
|> >     Is there a read-only account that the general public could use?
|> 
|> I think this is an excellent idea. Perhaps one should be set up.
| 
|     I wish.  OpenWatcom has guest Perforce access, for example.
| 
|> >     To alleviate load on perforce.freebsd.org, p4proxy could be set up
|> > on the current cvsup mirrors.  I'd likely set up my own proxy server
|> > on my home box, just to improve local response time (and ease setting
|> > up a local vendor branch for playing around).
|> 
|> Now I'm curious about doing this myself! It would certainly help on
|> my laptop. I am lagging behind on -CURRENT at the moment.
|     
|     It is dirt simple to set up a p4proxy.  The disk space that is
| required is constrained to the size of the master p4 repo, so that is
| a consideration (this will likely be several GB).  Personally, I'd
| donate to the maintainer of cvsup11 (the closest node to me) to
| provide disk space for this if it became available.
| 
|     Atomic commits, always up-to-date.  *Wonderful*.  Even for
| committers, it'd be great, because the proxies are write-through
| (for accounts that have write access).

Making me think that I'll certainly provide a p4p on anoncvs.fr.freebsd.org
if it becomes something that is getting in the move :-)

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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