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

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?

...Robert