Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-20 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Simon Paillard said: > Hi, > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:07:05PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > On Wed Oct 16, 2013 at 21:01:08 +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 07:54:04PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > This one time, at band camp,

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-20 Thread Simon Paillard
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 09:53:35AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Simon Paillard said: > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:07:05PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > > On Wed Oct 16, 2013 at 21:01:08 +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 07:54:04PM +01

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* Simon Paillard: > * My own experience is different, http.d.n redirects to ftp2.fr, which i got > 10,2Mo/s, while cloudfront.d.n (Amazon) gives 5Mo/s. This matches my experience. One of the CDNs we use at work does not seem to pre-replicate content world-wide (which is not too surprising, I sus

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-20 Thread Raphael Geissert
Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Raphael Geissert said: >> They do require a bit more work as they can not be added to the mirrors >> master list - they are "dumb" caching proxies that can not guarantee the >> consistency of the view of the archive they provide. Here's where I >>

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-20 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 13/10/13 at 08:44 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > We appreciate feedback while we continue our investigation of CDNs. Hi, I'm trying to summarize the discussion so far and add my own understanding/thoughts, in a set of Q & A. Q: What problem are we trying to solve? What's the current status?

Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, I received a few requests for hardware purchases, that I think are worth discussing with the project as a whole in order to progress towards having clear guidelines for what is acceptable and what isn't in terms of spending Debian money. Please provide feedback on the proposed decisions -- th

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > C. Laptop for developer (expected cost: 1k-1.5k EUR?) > = I have no particular comment on the merits of this specific request, but that cost jumped out at me. I don't know if systems are more expensive in Euros, but a

DPL helpers meeting on wednesday (2013-10-23)

2013-10-20 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, We will have a DPL helpers meeting on wednesday: $ date -ud @1382547600 Wed Oct 23 17:00:00 UTC 2013 on #debian-dpl. Titanpad with agenda: http://titanpad.com/debiandpl-20131023 (Please update the status of your action items before the meeting if possible) Lucas -- copy of t

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-20 Thread James Bromberger
On 20/10/2013 5:55 PM, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Stephen Gran wrote: >> That's mostly because we're not actually 'using' them now - we're just >> allowing them to cache. Most CDNs have a decache mechanism of some sort >> or other that we could use on mirror pulses, or we could tune the cache >> he

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-10-20, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > A. Memory expansion cards for m68k buildds (expected cost: 500 EUR) > > B. Powerful machine for d-i development (expected cost: 1.5k-2k EUR?) > > C. Laptop for developer (expected cost: 1k-1.5k EUR?) As such, I think all of it sounds reasonable. Developer t

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Romain Francoise
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > But I would welcome other ideas of criterias to apply here. I think we should spend donation money only on things that benefit everybody. Sponsoring hardware to help maintain core packages like d-i, glibc, the kernel, etc would be okay. But buying someone a laptop so tha

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 05:41:39PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > B. Powerful machine for d-i development (expected cost: 1.5k-2k EUR?) > = The estimation is a bit too large for a decent desktop machine. > > 1. performing more f

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:48:58PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 05:41:39PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > B. Powerful machine for d-i development (expected cost: 1.5k-2k EUR?) > > = > > The estimation is

Re: Buying hardware with Debian money

2013-10-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 09:11 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum writes: > > > C. Laptop for developer (expected cost: 1k-1.5k EUR?) > > = > > I have no particular comment on the merits of this specific request, but > that cost jumped ou

Re: Help bringing bugs.debian.org / debbugs back on track (Re: bits from the DPL -- September 2013)

2013-10-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > a debate. There is no debate here, just a bad suggestion from someone who has been annoying Debian for years and is banned from the BTS control bot due to this. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t