Re: Windows binary downloads/www.enterprisedb.com off the net

On Monday 08 March 2010 10:13:31 Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 2010/3/8 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>:
> > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
> >
> > <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote:
> >> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >>> 2010/3/7 Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>:
> >>>> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> >>>>> Hi all!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It seems like that EDB has some serious issues with (non)
> >>>>> availability of its main domain (looks like somebody forgot to renew
> >>>>> the domainname and is now waiting for getting the delegation added
> >>>>> back to the TLD or such).
> >>>>> This means that it is not impossible for our users to actually
> >>>>> download the windows binary packages - in the interest of redundancy
> >>>>> it would probably be a good idea if we at least mirrored those
> >>>>> packages on our own existing mirror network as well.
> >>>>> This would allow us to at least offer people an alternative - just in
> >>>>> case something like this happens again...
> >>>>
> >>>> I talked to Jim Mlodgenski of EnterpriseDB and he is working on the
> >>>> problem with other EDB employees.  :-O
> >>>
> >>> I think you are missing the point Stefan is trying to make. We're all
> >>> sure EDB will fix the problem. But it outlines the fact that the
> >>> ability for our community to be able to access the official community
> >>> binaries relies solely on infrastructure the community does not
> >>> control - in this caes it was the edb domain, it could also be the
> >>> webservers or whatever.
> >>>
> >>> For example, the core RPMs are available both at the pgsqlrpms project
> >>> *and* through the main mirroring network. We recommend people use the
> >>> YUM repository on pgsqlrpms.org, but they are still available through
> >>> the main web/ftp system (without the nice automated features and
> >>> instructions, but the core packages are there) if it goes down.
> >>
> >> yeah that is pretty much what I was trying to say - we don't even have
> >> the official binaries on a community box right now, it seems sensible
> >> that we should mirror them just as we do with the other stuff so we can
> >> actually react in case something happens again.
> >
> > Except - are these really a community product?  When bug reports are
> > filed on pgsql-bugs, I thought we fairly routinely referred the poster
> > to EDB.  Or am I confused?
>
> They are a community product, built by EDB.
>
> Kind of like the RPMs are a community product, built by either
> commandprompt or devrim.
>

That being the case, there's nothing that would prevent us from just
downloading a copy each release and sticking them somewhere, right?

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