Hi Ovilia,

BTW, odd Westerner question.  You write your name as Zhang Wenli and
your email as Ovilia.  Could you please tell me more about that?  Which
is your First Name, Last Name and possibly a Nickname?  For me, for
example, Kevin is my first name, Andrew is my middle name, McGrail is my
last name (or family name) and KAM is my initials / nickname in one. 
I'm trying to learn what name you like to be called and I'm worried
sometimes I have no idea if I am calling you by your last name, first
name, nickname or something else :-)

> We choose Baidu Tongji (meaning Analytics) out of the consideration of the
> accessibility to Google products in China.

One 3rd party versus another as far as I'm concerned so the same
question I would ask if it was Google Analytics.  Question: is the
account for that a role-based account shared for the podling PMC to
access so that it is accessible to all and stays with the project?


> As Kevin suggested, Huawei provided servers for Apache that we may use.
> That's a great idea.
> But just to be clear, are the servers provided in the form of Huawei Cloud
> [1] that can be assumed to be accessed all the time, or something like an
> SSH account which Huawei could deauthorize afterward? If it's in the latter
> form, I guess that's pretty much like we are facing today, only that the
> server is on Baidu rather than Huawei.

Yes and no. If we went that route of using Huawei, we would be formally
asking them under the ASF targeted sponsorship policy
(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JhZEcty2fSx7ZxiBs41j3qOUrqsA7TvKmQ13ZZ61lJY/edit)
and a formal agreement would be created so it couldn't just be pulled
out from under.  This is one of the reasons we ask for 3 year agreements
for hosting donations to promote stability.

If Baidu is willing to donate some services, that's feasible to pursue
especially echarts as a PMC is requesting and will use it.  I just
didn't know they, Baidu, provided those services too.  If Baidu is
willing to donate things, you could get root access to the box over to
infra, use resources from Baidu and as I described, we could use a
different URL for that mirror server to give faster access to the people
in China.  It will have to be an alternate URL though like we discussed
and it should be a mirror of the same info on the main URL, but faster :-)

Regards,

KAM

-- 
Kevin A. McGrail
Member, Apache Software Foundation
Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project
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