Hi, On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:54:06 +0300 Alexandr Kovalenko <ne...@nevermind.kiev.ua> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Alexandr Kovalenko > > <ne...@nevermind.kiev.ua> wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Oberman <kob6...@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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
