On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Francois Gouget wrote:
> I know of a mirror, http://ursula.gmcl.com/ (I don't know if
> there are others) but maybe it's Wine HQ that we should move somewhere
> with (hopefully) fewer problems. My point is that every site is pointing
> to Wine HQ, not the mirror, so Wine HQ should be on the most reliable
> site we can find not the other way around.
This sounds a bit backwards... ursula.gmcl.com is commit.winehq.com aka
winehq.com, the master site, maintained by Douglas.
www.winehq.com is winehq.tiepmiep.dk, the mirror site, maintained by
Bertho, and is mirroring ursula.gmcl.com.
> > >As a fellow open source developer, I would like to endorse the use of
> > >SourceForge...
>
> I must say I'm impressed by SourceForge too. Maybe it would be a
> good idea. Would there be any problem in terms of flexibility, ability
> to mirror the CVS or other similar things?
SourceForge is probably a fine service for new developers, but I doubt an
established project like Wine would gain from moving there. And I would
not trust this kind of large third-party site with a project of this
magnitude, centralization is not necessarily good in my opinion (we all
know that decentralization is the reason why the Internet and Linux can
never be destroyed by any large corporation; but SourceForge is owned by a
single corporation (VA Linux), so Wine would suddenly depend on an
uncompromised VA Linux to survive, and with Microsoft in the waters, would
you bet your future on it?)
If more mirror sites are desired, I could probably convince the guys here
at PING (some sort of hacker student group at University of Oslo,
Program-, Information-, and Networktechnological Group) to give me root
access to this server... 2Mbps uplink should be enough for our purposes?
(Or did they have a full 100Mbps?)
But I seem to recall that the problems were not lack of volunteering
sites, but something more technical...?
