[Savannah-hackers-public] Bazaar server on savannah

[Eli Zaretskii]

According to this thread:

   https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2011q1/071574.html

the initial "bzr branch" command for Emacs takes twice as much for
bzr.savannah.gnu.org as with lp:emacs (for machines that are not on
the same LAN as bzr.savannah.gnu.org): 45 to 60 min for lp:emacs vs 2
to 2.5 hours for bzr.savannah.  Even the inefficient SFTP method was
much faster than the current "smart server".

Note that routine day-to-day operations with the smart server are
reasonably fast.  However, the initial checkout that takes 2 hours is
a serious turn-off for newcomers; many of them turn to git mirrors
(which are synchronized with the Bazaar repo only once a day and lack
a common language, revision ID wise, with the mainline development),
which is undesirable.

According to this message:

   https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2011q1/071576.html

we could get significantly faster operation during the initial "bzr
branch" command if the Bazaar server on savannah would be upgraded to
a newer (2.2+) version.  Is this possible?

TIA