Re: removing ftp:// from mirrors lists

2016-04-19 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, William F. Maton Sotomayor wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Peter Palfrader wrote: talking to several mirror operators on IRC (including fewllow DSA members), I get the impression that a lot of us would appreciate if we could deprecate the FTP as a transport protocol. Maybe a

Re: removing ftp:// from mirrors lists

2016-04-19 Thread William F. Maton Sotomayor
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Peter Palfrader wrote: talking to several mirror operators on IRC (including fewllow DSA members), I get the impression that a lot of us would appreciate if we could deprecate the FTP as a transport protocol. Maybe an impression, but not necessarily representative. The l

Re: removing ftp:// from mirrors lists

2016-04-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 07:10:38AM +, Peter Palfrader wrote: > talking to several mirror operators on IRC (including fewllow DSA > members), I get the impression that a lot of us would appreciate if we > could deprecate the FTP as a transport protocol. > > I suggest we start by removing ftp://

Re: removing ftp:// from mirrors lists

2016-04-15 Thread Roberto Muñoz
Hi, > > The latter is also used by the installer, AIUI. -boot folks, can we > just go ahead and kill the *-ftp: entries from Mirrors.masterlist? > Do you have any objections or do you need some time before we do that? > > > Deprecate FTP means that in a near future we could not set up an FTP mir

Re: removing ftp:// from mirrors lists

2016-04-14 Thread Per Foreby
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 07:10:38 + Peter Palfrader wrote: > I suggest we start by removing ftp:// links from the various mirror > pages and from the mirror masterlist. Fine with me. I checked my logs, and the HTTP/FTP ratio is  well above 100. The FTP traffic is mainly Index files and a few poo

Re: removing ftp:// from mirrors lists

2016-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 08:50:11PM +0100, David Precious wrote: > FTP is, after all, designed for file transfers, and programatically > fetching file lists cleanly from an FTP server is easier than HTTP > mirrors, so is probably easier for e.g. a netboot installer or other > client to make use of,

Re: removing ftp:// from mirrors lists

2016-04-14 Thread David Precious
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 07:10:38 + Peter Palfrader wrote: > Hi, > > talking to several mirror operators on IRC (including fewllow DSA > members), I get the impression that a lot of us would appreciate if we > could deprecate the FTP as a transport protocol. I'm genuinely curious as to the reaso

removing ftp:// from mirrors lists

2016-04-12 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi, talking to several mirror operators on IRC (including fewllow DSA members), I get the impression that a lot of us would appreciate if we could deprecate the FTP as a transport protocol. I suggest we start by removing ftp:// links from the various mirror pages and from the mirror masterlist.