Web Site and gnats not being updated via CVSup

[John Marshall]

On Tue, 25 Dec 2012, 11:06 +0100, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
> 
> I didn't have a chance to look into it now, but it was a side effect
> of a recent step in reworking the www infrastructure where
> www.FreeBSD.org doesn't currently point to the actual web server, but
> a frontend reverse proxy. Unfortunately the cvsup pull from
> cvsup-master of web data used www as a name so it broke when the DNS
> entry for www was updated. I fixed this now, and I can see on
> cvsup-master that the latest sync actually pulled changes.

Thank you, Simon, for attending to this.  I have just checked several
WWW mirrors and all appear to be up to date again.

> The problem with GNATS is that cvsupd is broken on FreeBSD 10, and the
> master source of GNATS data (freefall) runs FreeBSD 10.0.
> 
> See also: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-December/071364.html

So, if the Project is deciding to bury CVSup as soon as possible, is a
new method of distributing the web site to WWW mirrors being planned
(e.g. rsync)? or will the existing mirrors be decommissioned to make way
for the new Project-owned-and-operated infrastructre?

-- 
John Marshall
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