Re: GNOME mirrors in general, and 1.4beta in particular

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Ade Lovett <ade FreeBSD org> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:19:07PM -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > Our mirror setup is badly broken. We are working on improving it. The
> > number one thing that would help would be a volunteer to help with the
> > work. We are considering a setup where the current ftp.gnome.org
> > becomes master.gnome.org and only feeds the mirrors, and fto.gnome.org
> > is just a primary mirror.
> 
> Preferably with the *really* old stuff in each directory either
> removed, or moved to a Historical sub-directory.
> 
> However, that aside, is there *any* site at all, where I (and others)
> can *reliably* get these tarfiles so we can actually do any porting
> work required?  As it stands, I can't do this.
> 

Not that I know of. I can probably get you shell access to the machine
or put the beta packages somewhere useful for you (the same goes for
any other binary packager). Is there a FreeBSD ftp site where I could
upload them for you, for instance?

Another thing I can offer you is to join the GNOME 1.4 Release Team
IRC meetings where we discuss planning issues. We also make the final
go/no-go decision and finalize the packages before the actual release
time, so this in effect gets you advance access. We offer this to any
person doing packaging work who would like to join us. If you are
interested, send me private mail.

I'm also working on getting Eazel to set up another ftp.gnome.org
mirror and make sure it is in sync. 

Sorry that our mirror situation is so out of whack. In the meantime,
patience, grasshopper.

 - Maciej