[squid-dev] mirrors with missing files

[Alex Rousskov]

On 2023-11-01 12:05, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 1/11/23 09:59, Alex Rousskov wrote:
>> On 2023-10-31 15:39, Francesco Chemolli wrote:
>>> Before we can migrate ..., we need to deprecate, cleanup and simplify 
>>> a lot.

>> Do you really, really _need_ to "deprecate, cleanup, and simplify a 
>> lot" in order to stop mirroring tomorrow?! Start doing new minor 
>> releases on GitHub a month from now? FWIW, I have asked for specifics 
>> many times, but am still unaware of any serious obstacles on the way 
>> to those goals.

> As I have mentioned multiple times ... there is a reason we have Jenkins 
> building the tarballs.

The reasons I have heard multiple times do not preclude disabling 
mirroring tomorrow and doing releases on GitHub a month from now.


>> AFAICT, there is just lack of shared goals (or shared priorities) 
>> rather than serious obstacles on the way of achieving those two 
>> specific goals.

> FWIW, one of those goals that we appear not to share is freedom of 
> information > ... specifically to have Squid code available to everyone.
FWIW, I support that particular goal (among others). That goal certainly 
does not preclude disabling mirroring tomorrow and doing releases on 
GitHub a month from now.


> There exist countries in this world who forbid access to USA hosted 
> content. Having squid-cache.org mirrored keeps us largely out of the 
> political arean.

We do not need mirrors to make Squid available on non-US hosted servers, 
especially stale, broken, and infested mirrors (i.e. the subject of this 
email thread).

Alex.