State of the archive

[Alan Coopersmith]

Egbert Eich wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith writes:
>  > Daniel Stone wrote:
>  > > The response was that an X.Org machine would continue to serve
>  > > ftp.x.org, and that annarchy's archive would be mirrored if it was only
>  > > writable by a very small group ('xorg-release' was the strawman).
>  > 
>  > That just ensures that ftp.x.org becomes useless and irrelevant since
>  > the main archive remains elsewhere.   That makes no sense to me either.
>  > 
> 
> Why? It depends on where the general public turns to looking for
> packages. 
> Since the project is called 'x.org' people would naturally turn 
> to ftp.x.org for the latest releases. 

Right, but if we refuse to host the packages on ftp.x.org and insist that
everyone go to xorg.freedesktop.org instead, then what purpose does ftp.x.org
serve?   (I think we are approaching violent agreement, just different
wording.)

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