As planned, everyone is checking out from SVN on the first day, so the
SVN server is completely overloaded and slow. Don't blame the svn implementation
itself for being slow, it's really the load on the server that is the problem, due
to the number of concurrent accesses.

If you haven't started checking out things yet, well, please consider postponing
it a little bit; meanwhile you can still work with the readonly CVS and prepare patches.
Things are so bad right now that we sysadmins can't fix things up where needed
without waiting ages between each command :/

Thanks for your understanding and patience.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).