[HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:54:06 +0300
Alexandr Kovalenko <never at nevermind.kiev.ua> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Alexandr Kovalenko
> > <never at nevermind.kiev.ua> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com>
> >> 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.
> 

this all sounds like a inside job to kill FreeBSD.

I just wrote the other message saying that it seems to me that the huge
user base outside the USA is ignored.

What will happen to the project when all non-US servers cannot be used
anymore?

Erich