RCS files for httpd-2.0 and apache-1.3 CVS modules

[Sung Kim <hu...@soe.ucsc.edu>]

Dear Apache HTTP Server Deveopers,

We are doing some research on a NSF-funded project titled IVA(Instability
Visualization and Analysis),
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/labs/grase/iva/. Basically, IVA reads all
revisions and deltas from SCM systems like CVS. Based on the data, IVA can
tell which module or part is instable (changes frequently when other modules
are changed) and visualize them.

We would like to run IVA against the apache httpd server repository which
has the one of longest revision histories among open source projects. But,
we assume
fetching all revisions, deltas directly from public apache CVS server is not
a suitable way, since it may incur high traffic or possibly take the CVS
server down.

We are wondering if it is possible to get all RCS files of httpd-2.0 and
apache-1.3 modules of CVS so that we can copy all RCS files in our local CVS
server. We are going to use the RCS file for ONLY research purpose and do
not intend to make the revision history publically available.

We really appreciated it.
-
Sung Kim
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~hunkim
Dept. of Computer Science
Baskin Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz

Re: RCS files for httpd-2.0 and apache-1.3 CVS modules

[Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Sung Kim wrote:
> We are wondering if it is possible to get all RCS files of httpd-2.0 and
> apache-1.3 modules of CVS so that we can copy all RCS files in our local CVS
> server. We are going to use the RCS file for ONLY research purpose and do
> not intend to make the revision history publically available.

Point an rsync client at cvs.apache.org and you'll find everything you
need.  In particular, the httpd-2.0-cvs and apache-1.3-cvs rsync targets.

Joshua.

Re: RCS files for httpd-2.0 and apache-1.3 CVS modules

[Greg Stein <gs...@lyra.org>]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:14:37PM -0700, Sung Kim wrote:
> Dear Apache HTTP Server Deveopers,
> 
> We are doing some research on a NSF-funded project titled IVA(Instability
> Visualization and Analysis),
> http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/labs/grase/iva/. Basically, IVA reads all
> revisions and deltas from SCM systems like CVS. Based on the data, IVA can
> tell which module or part is instable (changes frequently when other modules
> are changed) and visualize them.

Cool!

> We would like to run IVA against the apache httpd server repository which
> has the one of longest revision histories among open source projects. But,
> we assume
> fetching all revisions, deltas directly from public apache CVS server is not
> a suitable way, since it may incur high traffic or possibly take the CVS
> server down.

Yup. That would be bad :-)

> We are wondering if it is possible to get all RCS files of httpd-2.0 and
> apache-1.3 modules of CVS so that we can copy all RCS files in our local CVS
> server.

See: http://cvs.apache.org/~gstein/

> We are going to use the RCS file for ONLY research purpose and do
> not intend to make the revision history publically available.

It is *totally* fine to make it publically available. Realize that it
is *already* available :-) (via CVS, ViewCVS, and I think rsync)

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/