On Apr 9, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Chuck Lever <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mar 7, 2013, at 2:39 AM, Ian Kent <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> How about we find a home for the tarballs, like kernel.org, somewhere
>> near the location of autofs seems sensible to me?
>> 
>> I can contact kernel.org support and request it and upload the tarballs
>> if you wish.
> 
> I'll think about that.  I would want to get a kernel.org account so I can 
> publish these when they are released.

A kernel.org account requires an adequately signed GPG key.  My GPG key is 
brand new and unsigned.  I'm going to be at the LSF/MM summit next week, and 
will try to gather a few signatures.

Meanwhile, I found this on the kernel.org FAQ:

  https://www.kernel.org/category/faq.html

> I have cool project X, can you guys mirror it for me?
> 
> Probably not. Kernel.org deals with the Linux kernel, various distributions 
> of the kernel and larger repositories of packages. We do not mirror 
> individual projects, software, etc as we feel there are better places 
> providing mirrors for those kinds of repositories. If you feel that 
> kernel.org should mirror your project, please contact [email protected] 
> with the following information:
> 
>       • name
>       • project name
>       • project website
>       • detailed project description
>       • reason for wanting us to mirror
> 
> The Kernel.org admin team will then review your request and talk to you about 
> it. As with any kind of account on kernel.org it's up to the discretion of 
> the admin team.

Should we continue to pursue kernel.org as a fedfs-utils distribution point, or 
look for one of these "better places providing mirrors for those kinds of 
repositories" ?

-- 
Chuck Lever
chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com





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