On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:35:36PM +0100, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
Hello,
As you may know I'm running ARM[1] since the last maintainer resign in August 2013. I would like to propose its addition into our official services.
My current suggestion is to keep the current server and hierarchy and to move it under an archlinux.org subdomain. So far, best suggestions are: - archive.archlinux.org - museum.archlinux.org - rollback.archlinux.org
Current cost in byte is: # du -hcs 2013 2014 111G 2013 55G 2014 165G total
In a second time, we could: - move the files on an official server
Does 2013 cover the whole year? You're suggesting that 2014 will occupy over 200GB. We'd need new infrastructure for this, and it comes with a monetary cost we'd need to accomodate (or are you proposing that you'll be paying for this forever?). Have you looked into how much this would be per month with a potential provider? How much bandwidth is associated with this? How long would packages be retained? What about resource planning for future growth?
- move installer backups[2]
Not sure why old install ISOs are interesting for anything but nostalgia.
- add AUR
This doesn't make sense. We already have a git repo which does a far better job of compressing the deltas between versions of text files.
- backup them (by mirroring or others)
There's going to be a large cost here and I doubt it's any potential benefit. Do you get complaints/requests from your users to mirror your implementation?
Current used scripts are freely available here[3].
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ARM [2] https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/archive/ [3] https://github.com/seblu/armtools
-- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://seblu.net | Twitter: @seblu42 GPG: 0x2072D77A