The pubsvn server isn't managed by eZ systems. They only provide a DNS name. The server is maintained by Paul Borgermans, but he is on holidays right now just like the rest of the company hence the "slow" response times.
I can access the community repository though. I just did an svn up and it worked like a charm. Are you still experiencing problems?
I briefly returned from holiday to get things fixed. This is a tough one, the logs don't offer a clue. I suspect incompatibilities with a svn client and the svn server version.
I manually did a recover this afternoon, but the svn db got corrupted again around 22h17 CET. The repair scripts can't repair it anymore (endless loop trying so) :-(
I switched off the updates until I nailed down the cause
The community part is restored and functional again.
However, the bad news is that the updates of the core repository from ez systems are disabled for now. The reason is that this svn repository is rsynced which requires the pubsvn.ez.no server to go off-line for an update to avoid corruptions ... but this interferes with the community part causing corruptions there.
A more robust scheme is being put in place, but due to the holiday season, I can implement this fully only at the end of this month.
