Re: Moving sourceware to the Linux Foundation? No thanks.

[Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>]

Hi Ian,

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 04:53:15AM -0400, Ian Kelling via Overseers wrote:
> I'm on of the FSF tech team members that maintains the GNU Project
> repositories, eg: https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/ . If you have any
> problems or improvement you want to that hosting, talk to us. There is
> no reason for hosting to be changed or duplicated elsewhere. FSF can
> actually host a lot more things and this seems to have been overlooked
> when discussing potential changes to sourceware hosting.
> 
>  I'm now watching this list, so talking here is fine. If you want to
> email us privately, sysadmin@fsf.org (sysadmin@gnu.org goes to the same
> place).

Thanks. Although the various GNU projects of course do use the GNU ftp
services which requires cryptographically signed releases. Other
Sourceware projects don't enforce that.

I'll file an sourceware infrastructure bug to see if we can provide
something similar to
https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Automated-FTP-Uploads
for the other Sourceware projects. I assume the scripts for that are
available somewhere.

Also it might be nice to have cross-mirrors between sourceware and
gnu.

Cheers,

Mark