From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 9 16:54:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75B3C106564A for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 16:54:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from never@nevermind.kiev.ua) Received: from mail-qc0-f182.google.com (mail-qc0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26FD78FC16 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 16:54:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qcsg15 with SMTP id g15so827812qcs.13 for ; Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:54:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=nZ0LuaucETohRWOe9bKOXMfcUAj1ycalC52xI6w5SmI=; b=GJxazRQ6uUYhGafPyoxx4fbRvI7HKpK0B2zd7mde0rlrE5cIfGuOxXh1qDQbOVDCqn kFFY6UxFkryAJVmXXDhsRrcGm0nhCaBuO9oY0A/3jHi6MEvlwtv7VtrJVPxf38r/Ympc cjZmEVx2Tf2B4+W3c+ucyYvyMzvMFFgP8bPBup8UW72GYBHZs/hHrsqlwhUhhYZF/TbP 1KUK3J8SevoFqGFPDnCZ7IVGlu03Rx2X6EbQIKMEqEM/vcCmDWW6Ic+W+SHDQ899YWKK qdmCmmyMyq1NTfh37JzIGZaJ+PprRQ7jpkgksycR1dudOZbs3AVVaNqcbxfi8XiJ0cC0 pVwg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.196.132 with SMTP id eg4mr13766717qab.93.1347209646952; Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:54:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.27.168 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Sep 2012 09:54:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1347145713.16545.YahooMailClassic@web111312.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:54:06 +0300 Message-ID: From: Alexandr Kovalenko To: Kevin Oberman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmXEO33uR2+MXDfw3Ar+4+k66fTFScRPfeaCpA5HqZLxnKwtdqtIsziuLQXfeP1hJHmdShK Cc: Jamie Paul Griffin , Jeffrey Bouquet , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:54:08 -0000 On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Alexandr Kovalenko > wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> 2. Select US east coast or US west as your server. Pick at random or >>> pick the one closer to you. >> >> What if neither is close to me (there are other countries in the >> world, not only USA, some are even on the other side of the planet, >> btw, did you know?) ? > > Yes, I am quite aware of it, but I am merely the messenger. Until > other subversion mirrors are made available in other parts of the > world, only the two in the US are available. I'm sure that will change > in time, but for the moment, only the two US mirrors have been > announced. > > For now, if it is not clear which is closer, you can ping to see which > has the faster response. In my case, us-west is about 20 ms away while > us-east is 100. If you have a well connected server in another part of > the world, I assume the project would be happy to have another mirror > made available. Note that the full repository is quite large. There > are clearly security issues, too. JFYI, I'm already running ftp/cvsup.ua.freebsd.org (primary Ukrainian mirror) for about 8 years. But the recent changes to policies, which were discussed behind the closed doors by some group of people in The FreeBSD Project, effectively makes all efforts, money and so on, which were invested to support project, unnecessary. Current (semi-official) statements say that project is going to abandon practice of non-project managed mirrors and will do everything on it's own. As for now my mirror serves full CVS[up] repo from SSD, and have full FTP archive avaliable, which is synced every hour. You may have read the situation with Australian SVN mirror - when project officials officially prohibited guys, who set it up to use *.freebsd.org name for that. -- Alexandr Kovalenko ftp/cvsup.ua.freebsd.org maintainer.