On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 07:53:56PM +0800, James Bromberger wrote: > On 8/02/2014 4:41 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: [..] > > Sure, the hypothetical scenario which I'm worried about is: > > - there's only one CDN provider willing to support Debian, and able to > > meet our technical requirements > > - we switch everything to that CDN, and shut down our mirrors network > > - the CDN provider decides that, after all, it doesn't want to support > > Debian anymore > > I don't think Debian should shut down the mirror network; at least on a > national level. For example, right now I am configuring Debian AMIs > within China, and the only mirror I can access from there is > ftp.cn.debian.org.
I don't want the current mirror network be dropped in favor of a CDN, for the same good reason of being independent of a too little group of CDN providers willing/able to carry Debian. > > Clearly, that's a long way from the current status, but that's something > > that we should keep in mind, and I was just slightly worried that it was > > not mentioned in Tollef's status update. > > I think maintaining mirrors *and* balancing across mirrors and CDNs is a > possible way forward with something like http.debian.net. I'm more than > happy to help scale-out http.debian.net to multiple PoPs if we want to > address that as well... That would be great, thanks James for your help, we can discuss this privately on mirr...@debian.org. -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140208123115.gc...@mraw.org
