Holger Schröder schrieb: > On Friday 01 February 2008 14:56:34 Dirk Mueller wrote: >> On Thursday 31 January 2008, Christian Ehrlicher wrote: >>>>> e.g. http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/kde/unstable/3.97/windows does not work >>>>> anymore. >>>> the 3.97 unstable release was completly removed from the kde mirrors by >>>> unknown. :-( >> Sorry, a small messup that has been fixed. The files should appear again >> shortly. >> >>> ok, looks like we need our own server. The whole thing we the kde >>> mirrors don't work at all. We've other needs than what ftp.kde.org is >>> made for. We need to release packages like any other linux distribution. >> And why can't you use download.kde.org for that? I think it is fine to add >> smallish patches to our sources to be able to keep them compiling. And if >> you regularly track the weekly snapshots of KDE 4.1, you should come close >> to a state where you can just semi-automatically build the new snapshot >> without any additional patch needed. >> >>> CC'ing to release-team - maybe they've an idea how to solve this problem. >> My idea would be: work together, help ensure that the weekly snapshots are >> in a good state, package them and provide them via download.kde.org. If you >> run into a problem, tell us about it instead of trying to do your own >> thing. >> > i am very much in favor of dirks proposal. in the long run (some years from > now) kde on windows will "only be kde on one of these platforms". > > so i don´t see a reason why we windows people should build a kind of own > infrastructure, when we kde people already have the infrastructure working > fine on big servers. and some great sysadmins which take care of them. > > when we windows people talk to them, they listen to us, i don´t know if that > would work for sf or some other hosting. so hosting on "foreign" servers will > only introduce one more point of possible failure. > > and it gives a better impression to the outside world / users, when we have > an > integrated system that just works. > > i think dirks proposal which he told me at the release event is exactly what > we need. he offered to add a windows directory on the kde download server, > which he would use to mirror via rsync from some server, for example ralfs > server at cegit. that would leave us with the freedom to change the > subdirectory layout under that directory, as we see need in the future. and > it will be set up once and will continue to run without (much) further > maintenance. > > of course we are working to bring our patches upstream. it just takes time > and > manpower. > Wee changed our buildsystem to also use releases from ftp instead doing svn ones only. This (hopefully) solves the issues.
Christian
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