We are currently dealing with network interface issues on svn.apache.org, so now may be a good time to promote the usage of our new mirror at svn.eu.apache.org.

Ideally you should be able to use svn.eu.apache.org as if it were the master- it even will accept commits over https. The drawback at the moment is that the unreliability of the link between the master and the mirror is that syncs may take a few minutes to complete. If you are in the habit of running svn update right after you make a commit, you may find this unbearable at the moment, but if that isn't part of your work habits, the mirror should serve European users rather well.

We have also enabled git-svn for top-level projects on the mirror, and will be evaluating the traffic on a weekly basis to determine if this sort of thing is something we can reasonably support. I encourage those of you who will take advantage of this feature to run git-svn with the --log-window-size=10000 flag set, in order to minimize unnecessary traffic.