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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:07:30 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   ftp://freebsd.org - RIP
Message-ID:  <24298.887220450@time.cdrom.com>

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Translated, that says that hub.freebsd.org AKA mail.freebsd.org is no
longer offering FTP services.  Nobody has really "owned" FTP services
here at FreeBSD.org for awhile and the end result is that nobody
bothered to move it when catfish was finally retasked, resulting in
the 3rd loss of the FTP area in as many months.  The fact that it
wasn't being properly cared for coupled with the fact that it's also
caused a bit of confusion from time to time (freebsd.org sounds just
too close to ftp.freebsd.org) led me to decide not to try and
resurrect the service this time.

This, unfortunately, leaves us without a place to stage "development"
bits and I therefore would like to call for one or two volunteer
maintainers who'd be willing to maintain:

	ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/
and
	ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/development/

The incoming tree being where people can drop things off for the
maintainers and the development/ tree being a read-only tree admin'd
by them which contains subdirectories for projects like BISDN,
PicoBSD, etc.  The maintainer(s) would have to be fairly responsive to
new things in incoming/ since they wouldn't be actually downloadable
immediately after an upload to prevent abuse by WAREZ folks - they'd
have to be manually chmod'd or moved to their proper home under the
development tree.

Any volunteers?  This is an *ongoing* responsibility, so please don't
volunteer if you're just idling for a month or two between contracts
and will later have no time at all.

Thanks!

					Jordan

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