From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 15:33:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C5AB37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.attbi.com (sccrmhc12.attbi.com [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C60643FB1 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:33:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.240.204.110]) by attbi.com (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2003061022333801200977rje>; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:33:38 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5AMXb9c019540; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:33:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h5AMXadv019539; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:33:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:33:36 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" To: Ken Smith Message-ID: <20030610223336.GA19468@intruder.bmah.org> References: <20030610164328.GD2099@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <200306101848.h5AImAVt006033@lurza.secnetix.de> <20030610212022.GB14325@ns1.xcllnt.net> <20030610213812.GB10251@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030610213812.GB10251@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ cc: freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.org cc: Oliver Fromme cc: Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.1 Released! X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:33:40 -0000 --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Ken Smith wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:20:22PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >=20 > > I'm not a mirror operator (IANAMO? :-) and I just recently > > entered the playground by providing the ia64 release bits and > > snapshots, but I can truely say that I'm amazed by how > > unstructured this all is. So, in that respect I don't think > > you're wrong. >=20 > I've been watching for a while longer than you. I could be wrong and > if I am I truly apologize to who this is likely to offend but... I > don't think there is anyone other than the RE team that dabbles in > the structure of the mirror system, and they only do it when it's > close to release time. For example ISC's offer of a very nice mirror > site went un-answered for a while and then incorporated in a flurry > of late night activity by un-named higher-ups in the FreeBSD organization. > So, I don't think anyone considers it their job to coordinate any of > this. With my RE hat on (but speaking for myself) I would say that RE tries *not* to get involved with mirror operations. I think we are a little more like Marcel, in that we put bits on ftp-master and, as much as we can, try to give information about the timing of upcoming releases and when we plan to have certain events (such as release announcements) happen. We have certain ideas of what services the mirror sites can provide...sometimes I admit we can be unrealistic in those expectations, out of ignorance. Most notably, as far as I can tell, none of the current members of RE runs an FTP mirror site. Personally I'm pretty clueless about the constraints under which the mirrors (and their operators) work, the different mechanisms used to transfer data (cvsup vs. rsync vs. ftp vs. ...???...). I *will* agree that we're most concerned about mirror operations right around release time (and somewhat less at other times), but given what I wrote above, that's not a surprise, right? As far as making things more organized, I'd say that RE would be amenable to changes in mirror operations that were well-documented and didn't require huge changes in the way we run our release process. Bruce. PS. I have not properly thanked all of you mirror site operators for your help with 5.1 yet, so, thank you! --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+5lzA2MoxcVugUsMRAlC7AKCs9pXJ7uGZ/h3wN7qdQFJSj+MSwACeJ5vL zEXl0DgTE8/0x2BOpuY7kD0= =S0Od -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7--