From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 11 10:07:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12627 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:07:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12612 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:07:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA24302 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:07:30 -0800 (PST) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ftp://freebsd.org - RIP Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:07:30 -0800 Message-ID: <24298.887220450@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Translated, that says that hub.freebsd.org AKA mail.freebsd.org is no longer offering FTP services. Nobody has really "owned" FTP services here at FreeBSD.org for awhile and the end result is that nobody bothered to move it when catfish was finally retasked, resulting in the 3rd loss of the FTP area in as many months. The fact that it wasn't being properly cared for coupled with the fact that it's also caused a bit of confusion from time to time (freebsd.org sounds just too close to ftp.freebsd.org) led me to decide not to try and resurrect the service this time. This, unfortunately, leaves us without a place to stage "development" bits and I therefore would like to call for one or two volunteer maintainers who'd be willing to maintain: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/ and ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/development/ The incoming tree being where people can drop things off for the maintainers and the development/ tree being a read-only tree admin'd by them which contains subdirectories for projects like BISDN, PicoBSD, etc. The maintainer(s) would have to be fairly responsive to new things in incoming/ since they wouldn't be actually downloadable immediately after an upload to prevent abuse by WAREZ folks - they'd have to be manually chmod'd or moved to their proper home under the development tree. Any volunteers? This is an *ongoing* responsibility, so please don't volunteer if you're just idling for a month or two between contracts and will later have no time at all. Thanks! Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message