From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 11 13:33:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26019 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 13:33:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA25967 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 13:33:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from ragnet.demon.co.uk ([158.152.46.40]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa2015297; 11 Feb 98 20:57 GMT Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0y2jAx-0003oJ-00; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 20:54:35 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <24298.887220450@time.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 20:54:35 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: RE: ftp://freebsd.org - RIP Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message