Recent inquiries have indicated confusion on the date and reasons around the move of the JBoss CVS repository on SourceForge to a dedicated public repository. The CVS repository on SourceForge was moved to a collocated set of servers at InterNAP in Atlanta Georgia on April 23rd of 2005. Due to the size of the repository and the time that the community was spending waiting on repository transactions, JBoss moved its CVS repository to a set of servers which have both hardware and network infrastructure dedicated completely to its intended use.

 

JBoss publicly announced this move before it took place and notified the open source community of the change in infrastructure and process. Also, all documentation explaining how to access the public CVS repository was updated at the time of the move. See:

 

http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=CVSRepository

 

The above document states how to access the repositories, both committer and anonymous. Both repositories are identical and synchronized. They were both created from an archive delivered from SourceForge.net. All historical information was preserved.

 

JBoss' CVS Repository was, is, and always will be open to the public. JBoss is dedicated to providing the best service possible and the move of the repository guarantees the community has rapid access to all JBoss source code.

 

JBoss maintains its relationship with SourceForge and this move was in no way a negative statement towards SourceForge. We continue to host our development and user mailing lists at SourceForge. Additionally, all community development at JBoss will continue to integrate with SourceForge repositories whenever necessary.

 

To reiterate, the JBoss CVS Repository was moved six months ago and in no way did that move correlate with recent activities of certain members of the community.

 

Sincerest Regards,



Damon Sicore
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