On 6/16/2014 2:39 PM, francis picabia wrote:
If this is open source, why not take advantage of all of the
repositories available for this? Git? Sourceforge? Mirrors? The
problem isn't merely the lack of a backup, but a single point of
failure waiting to happen. When something goes wrong with kernel.org
<http://kernel.org> or the like, it isn't backup tapes that get them
online again quickly. I don't know enough about it, but I know the
general principle that if you have a problem you're likely not the
first to encounter it, and you usually don' t need to invent a
solution, but look into how it has been solved elsewhere.
At the ASF, there is an infrastructure team that manages those type of
issues. They work hard and do a lot of good but unfortunately, there
was a disconnect back in 2009 and a backup request was not implemented
correctly.
So this is less about inventing a wheel and more about making sure that
we have air in the spare tire...
regards,
KAM
