Comment Re:cvs @ kernel.org down (Score 1) 687
I shut the machine down so that we can reinstall it.
cvs.kernel.org is in NO WAY the "primary site for the linux kernel", it's a BK/CVS/SVN server that BitMover and Penguin Computing provided to the kernel developers.
The primary BitKeeper site is up and functioning and even if it wasn't, that's no problem because BK is replicated. Unlike CVS/SVN you'd have to find every single replica and kill that to shut down all the BK trees. It's impossible, there are 10's of thousands of replicas.
This is just a CVS problem, inspite of the noise on the kernel list the CVS server is very lightly used, maybe 3-4 people, so it's just not a big deal. The trojan horse is a big deal but the fact that it got into CVS is fairly minor and it was caught by us immediately.
cvs.kernel.org is in NO WAY the "primary site for the linux kernel", it's a BK/CVS/SVN server that BitMover and Penguin Computing provided to the kernel developers.
The primary BitKeeper site is up and functioning and even if it wasn't, that's no problem because BK is replicated. Unlike CVS/SVN you'd have to find every single replica and kill that to shut down all the BK trees. It's impossible, there are 10's of thousands of replicas.
This is just a CVS problem, inspite of the noise on the kernel list the CVS server is very lightly used, maybe 3-4 people, so it's just not a big deal. The trojan horse is a big deal but the fact that it got into CVS is fairly minor and it was caught by us immediately.
