From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 05:36:13 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 080B816A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 05:36:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B748944001 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 05:36:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (kensmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h8BCaBlu011272 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:36:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h8BCaAKm011271 for freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:36:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:36:10 -0400 From: Ken Smith To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030911123610.GA10809@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: mirror-announce@freebsd.org 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: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:36:13 -0000 [ Quick summary: If you are an Official Mirror Site and you have even a tiny doubt I have the correct email address for your site please reply to this, straight to me, and at least let me know what your site's name is. Don't assume that just because you're on hubs@ you are taken care of - it's better to reply to this. Those of you who replied to my previous message asking for site info for the upcoming 4.9 release do NOT need to do anything - you gave me what I needed already. ] Last night the list "mirror-announce@freebsd.org" was created for us, though I haven't added any addresses to it yet. I'm not sure if it will be "ready enough" for the 4.9 release but I'll try. This list will be mandatory for all Official Mirror Sites and it will be a strictly "announce only" list - not for discussion (that's what hubs@ is for :-). When it is ready this will be where the re@ folks will announce things relevant to releases instead of hubs@. This is being done for two reasons - hubs@ can at times get a bit too chatty to be made a *requirement* of all Official Mirror Sites, and maybe having this be a private list will reduce the chances of the releases being "announced" (on slashdot for example) before re@ is ready for it. Please note that because hubs@ is a public list and anyone can sign up for it I can't use that as a base to build mirror-announce@ from so just because you're on hubs@ doesn't mean you'll automatically wind up on mirror-announce@. Also, upon reflection (read: dealing with tons of SPAM resulting from my email address being on various Web pages... :-) at this time I have no intention of adding new places on the Web we list site contact email addresses. If that changes we'll check with you beforehand. I would still like to have two classes of email addresses for every site though. Those of you who responded to the previous message should still be all set, I don't think your answer would change. What we need is: 1) Who we should send email to when announcing things, if we need to contact you because a problem was reported with your site, etc. For large sites this might be an alias that reaches several tech staff-ers who can handle problems. 2) Who we should believe if they send email to us asking that information about the site be changed. Note this needs to be a real email address we'd see in the "From:" headers. If we receive a change request from an unrecognized address we'll try to confirm the request by sending to (1) before we do anything so this will delay processing the request. If you are a small site there may not be any difference between (1) and (2), and that's fine. Larger sites tend to have different answers for (1) and (2) though. I'll call (1) the Site Contact and (2) the Site Maintainer. So... Given that if any of you have not replied to my previous message asking for info about sites for the upcoming FreeBSD 4.9 release here's the template again: FreeBSD name: Real site name: Site Maintainer(s): [*REAL* email address, who would send us email] Site Contact(s): [Who we should send email to] Content: [ISO's/release files/packages] Access Methods: [FTP/rsync/cvsup/http] Upstream Host: [where you feed from] Sync Mechanism: [how you download - cvsup/rsync/omi/mirror/etc] Thanks. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |