Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:10:55 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing Message-ID: <23154.893524255@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Apr 1998 18:59:20 %2B0200." <19980425185920.A8244@shale.csir.co.za>
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> I would really like to see them 'encouraged' into a FreeBSD model. I think
> that the importance of mozilla.org lies in publicity, not in it becoming a
This has already been going on for some time ("encouragement" and
private discussion) but we'll just have to see what the mozilla
staffers end up being most comfortable with. Believe me, we're
trying! :)
> My wish is that FreeBSD would leverage (now there's a nice marketing word :)
> their existing worldwide mirrors to make an 'instant' worldwide mozilla.org
> (ie cvsup.za.mozilla.org, etc), by making pointers in mozilla.org's DNS to
> freebsd.org's and getting the FreeBSD mirror sites to mirror Mozilla (via
> CVS and FTP tarballs of the source and binaries). We could do this quickly
> and it wouldn't consume much resources (not as much as say the distfiles or
> packages). We could also help them set up GNATS, www mirrors, cvsweb
The problem with this, and it's already been offered, is that they're
already in the process of setting all these things up themselves (some
number of insanely configured Sparc/SMP boxes are being put together
now to serve all of this stuff over at Mozilla.org) and there is
actually great concern that we'll race off and set up a parallel
infrastructure in our impatience and really confuse things - I already
offered to donate machine resources and network connectivity to the
cause of setting up a set of mozilla mirrors, as you mention, and got
"no, no, wait, we're *almost ready!*" as my answer. They're happy to
have our help, but they're also in the process of releasing their own
CVS repository and they'd much rather than bento mirror it than keep a
parallel copy.
Jordan
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