From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Apr 25 10:13:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18223 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@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 KAA18216 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:13:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23158; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:10:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Jeremy Lea cc: John Birrell , "Pedro F. Giffuni" , hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 25 Apr 1998 18:59:20 +0200." <19980425185920.A8244@shale.csir.co.za> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 10:10:55 -0700 Message-ID: <23154.893524255@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Redirected to -advocacy only; -chat and -advocacy both is overkill] > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message