2015-06-23 22:39 GMT+02:00 Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com>:

>
> On 06/23/2015 08:00 AM, Roberto Galoppini wrote:
> > 2015-06-23 0:49 GMT+02:00 Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com>:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 06/21/2015 11:54 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> >>> On 21/06/2015 Kay Schenk wrote:
> >>>> yes, they would be...based on the buildbot failure alone, I think the
> SF
> >>>> mirror must have been deactivated just a day or so ago.
> >>>
> >>> Could it be that this is an unintended consequence of SourceForge's new
> >>> policy when they decided, for transparency towards the community, to
> >>> avoid mirrors that had not been asked for?
> >>>
> >>
> http://sourceforge.net/blog/project-mirroring-policies-will-be-revisited-with-our-community-panel-existing-mirrors-removed/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> It seems clear that
> >>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/ was definitely
> >>> to be kept (or, while at it, we could have it relocated to
> >>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras/ or something else like
> >>> apache-extras-openoffice).
> >>
> >> Oh my! I did not see/hear about this. Given the June 18 notice, yes, I
> >> would certainly say this applies to AOO and why the mirror service was
> >> stopped.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, that is the reason. Do we need to reinstate the project, and if
> that's
> > the case who would be the administrator/s?
> > Let me know and I'll get it fixed, really sorry for the annoyance.
> >
> > Roberto
>
> In the short term, reinstating the mirror of /trunk/ext_sources is
> pretty important without a lot of additional testing/setup directly from
> the source repositories of these items. So, I would vote YES on this.
>


oooextras is back from few hours now.


>
> What is required of the administrator(s)?
>


A sourceforge account, let me know yours (even privately) and I'll add them
right away.


>
> No apology needed. I think the majority of us are not current on
> SourceForge policies so we were not aware of this change. As far as I
> know, Apache OpenOffice was happy to have the SourceForge mirror service
> for these additional sources.
>

Our decision was driven by other communities' concerns, we believe that our
current setting give peace of mind to all mirrored projects, but those who
really want to manage their mirrors! :) Hope we reinstated it properly and
we can move on.

Thanks for understanding.

roberto




>
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> OK, I'm looking specifically at this paragraph from the link you sent--
> >>
> >> "Mirrors which are not co-maintained with the one or more of the
> >> original developers, except where the upstream site has been
> >> discontinued, have been removed effective immediately. An extensive
> >> review has been conducted of the 295 mirrored projects and removals were
> >> completed on June 18th. Where a SourceForge-maintained mirror has been
> >> removed, we have redirected this traffic back to the canonical home for
> >> the software (whence it was mirrored to begin with)."
> >>
> >> Basically since "ooo-extras" are copies with md5 sums applied for our
> >> own uses, and we are NOT the original developers,  this would definitely
> >> apply.
> >>
> >> In most cases, we have the provider links to these items listed as URL1
> >> in /main/external_deps.lst. So, should we just change this file to use
> >> URL1 as default and forget ooo-extras altogether?
> >>
> >> We would need to see how this affects configuration which I've had
> >> problems with in the past when these sources haven't bee kept up to date
> >> in /ext_sources. It's likely we would need some alternate verification
> >> method.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>> The direct download from
> >>>>> http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8d.tar.gz
> >>>>> and
> >>>>> http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/Python-2.7.6.tgz
> >>>>> works for me. I don't know why it doesn't work for bootstrap.
> >>>
> >>> At times, the first download fails since the .gz file is uncompressed
> >>> during download. So basically you download file.tar.gz and what you get
> >>> is a file named "file.tar.gz" but with the contents of "file.tar" (and
> >>> thus a different md5sum). If someone wants to hack the Perl file or
> file
> >>> this in an issue it would be perfect. But the fallback always worked,
> so
> >>> this hasn't been high priority.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>   Andrea.
> >>>
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