[HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS

[Chris Rees]

On 10 Sep 2012 02:16, "Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erich Dollansky" <
erichfreebsdlist at ovitrap.com>
>
>
>>> > What if neither is close to me (there are other countries in the
>>> > world, not only USA, some are even on the other side of the planet,
>>> > btw, did you know?) ?
>>>
>>> Yes, I am quite aware of it, but I am merely the messenger. Until
>>> other subversion mirrors are made available in other parts of the
>>> world, only the two in the US are available. I'm sure that will change
>>> in time, but for the moment, only the two US mirrors have been
>>> announced.
>>>
>> why stop a system then when the replacement is not up and running? Do
>> you want to kill the infrastructure to distribute FreeBSD?
>
>
> Looking at it from the practical side if the replacement architecture
> isn't ready yet then it sounds like this needs to be delayed until
> such a time that it is.
>
> Only having two mirrors and both in the US is not really practical,
> many of us, in other parts of the globe, will suffer from stupidly
> long update times; BDP would really have a bad effect on updates,
> and that's assuming the two servers don't just die under the load of
> everyone using them.
>
> So again please consider delaying the switch over until a decent mirror
> set is available, in order to prevent serious amounts of frustration
> from your user base.

I think people are getting needlessly worried.  There is another six months
before this happens; more mirrors should be set up by then.

Chris