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AnonCVS over SSH
Why do you only support the buggy, broken, insecure, ancient, almost no longer used :pserver: protocol for anonymous CVS repository access, and neglect the much more widely used :ext: method using Secure SHell?
My projects also offer anonymous rsync (for direct access to the comma-v files)… over SSH, not via the ancient, broken, insecure rsyncd of course ☺
Well, I won't disagree that pserver is buggy, broken, insecure, and ancient.
However, almost no longer used
is a joke, right? Ohloh is currently syncing over 10,000 CVS modules per day, including a lot of very high-profile projects, using only pserver.
Also, syncing with pserver is dead simple from an operations perspective, which is very attractive when you're trying to build a cluster that syncs 10,000 CVS modules per day.
On the flip side, we've had fewer than a half-dozen requests for :ext: support over the last two years.
I'm not trying to dismiss your needs at all, and I fully agree that :ext: is superior to :pserver:, but we need to be honest about where Ohloh can get the most bang for our buck.
In a perfect world Ohloh would pull from every source control system over every protocol, but we have limited resources, so we've gone with what is (actually) popular, and we'll expand our support as time allows.
Okay, I think I can live with that reason. I went through great pains to set up pserver access to something resembling our repositories, and have added the enlistenments now.
This does not mean I’d like you to consider using :ext: over ssh (nobody uses rsh these days, I hope…) some day when you have enough resources ;)
Thanks!