Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Joey Hess said: Ultimately, we are of the opinion that the content delivery problem is a solved one But apparently not one solved by free software included in Debian. Perhaps it's worth avoiding using it if that will help encourage the development of libre

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-14 Thread Ingo Jürgensmann
Am 14.10.2013 um 07:29 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no: 1) Privacy concerns: Debian would deliver much more data to business companies than necessary. Keep in mind that personalized data is one of the most valuable things to data miners. Currently I choose one mirror site to pull my

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-14 Thread Philip Hands
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: ... Nobody has suggested removing the mirror network. What's being discussed is using a CDN for some .d.o services. That was certainly not clear from your original post. I certainly read you as suggesting that some services could be moved to third-party

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Philip Hands Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: ... Nobody has suggested removing the mirror network. What's being discussed is using a CDN for some .d.o services. That was certainly not clear from your original post. I certainly read you as suggesting that some services

DSA Team Meeting minutes, 2013-10-11

2013-10-14 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Present: luca (Luca Filipozzi) paravoid (Faidon Liambotis) weasel (Peter Palfrader) zumbi (Héctor Orón Martínez) Mithrandir (Tollef Fog Heen) zobel (Martin Zobel-Helas) sgran (Stephen Gran) Ongoing project update o debian.org mail move status (tfheen, sgran) - big move is done, cleanup

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Joey Hess wrote: But apparently not one solved by free software included in Debian. Perhaps it's worth avoiding using it if that will help encourage the development of libre alternatives. I guess the hardest part of

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-14 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no writes: 1) Privacy concerns: Debian would deliver much more data to business companies than necessary. Keep in mind that personalized data is one of the most valuable things to data miners. Currently I choose one mirror site to pull my packages from. I can freely

Re: Possibly moving Debian services to a CDN

2013-10-14 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no wrote: ]] Paul Wise About the archive mirrors, some reworded thoughts from the DPL IRC channel when this came up a few days ago: pabs [...] I think the current state of affairs is fine; I don't believe you're one of the person