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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 1998 20:54:35 -0000 (GMT)
From:      Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: ftp://freebsd.org - RIP
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980211205435.dmlb@computer.my.domain>
In-Reply-To: <24298.887220450@time.cdrom.com>

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> 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.

I would like to an be willing to take this on. If, you deel that a guy doing it 
in the evenings (UK time!) would be suitable?

Bar the odd weekend away from home I should be able to keep an eye on things
on a daily basis.


I'm even up to generating an index etc. of incoming/ !


Duncan


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Duncan Barclay          | God smiles upon the little children,
dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned.
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