From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 10 00:00:18 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 007D61065673 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.224.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C4A8FC12 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from X220.ovitrap.com ([122.129.201.5]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q8A00Eqk013170; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 18:00:15 -0600 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:00:13 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky To: Alexandr Kovalenko Message-ID: <20120910070013.2e05b979@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1347145713.16545.YahooMailClassic@web111312.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jamie Paul Griffin , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Jeffrey Bouquet , Kevin Oberman Subject: Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:18 -0000 Hi, On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:54:06 +0300 Alexandr Kovalenko wrote: > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Kevin Oberman > wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Alexandr Kovalenko > > wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Oberman > >> wrote: > >>> 2. Select US east coast or US west as your server. Pick at random > >>> or pick the one closer to you. > >> > >> What if neither is close to me (there are other countries in the > >> world, not only USA, some are even on the other side of the planet, > >> btw, did you know?) ? > > > > Yes, I am quite aware of it, but I am merely the messenger. Until > > other subversion mirrors are made available in other parts of the > > world, only the two in the US are available. I'm sure that will > > change in time, but for the moment, only the two US mirrors have > > been announced. > > > > For now, if it is not clear which is closer, you can ping to see > > which has the faster response. In my case, us-west is about 20 ms > > away while us-east is 100. If you have a well connected server in > > another part of the world, I assume the project would be happy to > > have another mirror made available. Note that the full repository > > is quite large. There are clearly security issues, too. > > JFYI, I'm already running ftp/cvsup.ua.freebsd.org (primary Ukrainian > mirror) for about 8 years. > > But the recent changes to policies, which were discussed behind the > closed doors by some group of people in The FreeBSD Project, > effectively makes all efforts, money and so on, which were invested to > support project, unnecessary. Current (semi-official) statements say > that project is going to abandon practice of non-project managed > mirrors and will do everything on it's own. > > As for now my mirror serves full CVS[up] repo from SSD, and have full > FTP archive avaliable, which is synced every hour. > > You may have read the situation with Australian SVN mirror - when > project officials officially prohibited guys, who set it up to use > *.freebsd.org name for that. > this all sounds like a inside job to kill FreeBSD. I just wrote the other message saying that it seems to me that the huge user base outside the USA is ignored. What will happen to the project when all non-US servers cannot be used anymore? Erich