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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:17:52 +0000, Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have encountered an oddity worth mentioning.
> 
> For some time I've been changing Sourceforge imports to use plain http
> not https as I approve them. I've never noticed any issues from this before.
> 
> However, someone emailed me yesterday (replying to Launchpad's automated
> email from when I reviewed the import) reporting that their import
> wasn't working. I switched it to https... and it worked.
> 
> So, there's something weird potentially changed about Sourceforge's svn
> server.

That is strange.  I saw a comment from Jelmer that it looks almost like
sf is firewalling us, maybe that's possible?  Though I would expect them
to communicate with us first, based on past experience.

I guess one piece of good news is that the https/http makes less
difference with bzr-svn...

Cheers,
mwh