Australian Subversion Repository Mirror

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, John Marshall wrote:

Hey,

sorry no one seems to have replied; I'll try to break a tie of not
having anything official but still say something to at least give
hints.

> In the absence of any advice as to the propriety of allocating FreeBSD
> domain names to public FreeBSD Subversion Repository mirrors, we have
> gone ahead and allocated a domain names to the mirror I announced here a
> month ago.  If we've done the wrong thing, please let us know.

there is nothing wirtten up yet but I think it's ok to give you my
understanding of the current state of discussions of the future policy:

no mirrors under *.freebsd.org not fully controlled by the project,
seems to be a pretty good summary.

We'll not make anyone immediately stop, as we still heavily rely on
these mirrors (at least the ~40-ish% not out of date) in the old world
order.  Even afterwards, you'll still be able to happily provide mirrors,
how could we stop you, but no "official" mirrors anymore.

I think that's the direction we are heading;  the reasons are many,
not just outdated mirrors we can't do a lot about, but I guess it'll
better if we write things up and properly do this as a "long term" thing.

However before more mirrors, and only talking about mirrors at this
point, will pop up, you might want to ponder a different FQDN, which is
not a sub-domain of FreeBSD.ORG, right from the start maybe.

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                 You have to have visions!
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