Re: 2012 PHP Mirror Overhaul

Hi I'm Leonardo Verzetti, i work at Register.it, i'm a colleague of Sandro Tosi. I have to make the required changes on it.php.net, can you add my email (leonardo.verzetti@register.it) to php-mirrors@lists.php.net? Thanks Leonardo -- Leonardo Verzetti Product Engineer Shared Hosting Products R&D - Dada.pro leonardo.verzetti@register.it -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 2012 PHP Mirror Overhaul Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 16:44:59 -0400 From: Daniel Brown<danbrown@php.net> To: PHP Mirrors List<php-mirrors@lists.php.net> Greetings, official mirror maintainers; First of all, I would like to take the opportunity to thank you all very, very much, on behalf of the entire PHP user community around the world. Without your generosity in providing an official mirror of php.net, we would not be able to serve the community as we're able to at present. I've even built friendly, non-PHP-centric relationships with many of you over the years, and speak with some of you on a somewhat regular-basis, via email, Facebook, or other media. You all do a wonderfully fantastic job, and for that, I applaud and thank you. Keep up the great work. This month we're kicking off our mirror overhaul project for 2012. A lot of major changes are to be made, but the good news for all of you is that they're pretty simple. And, in fact, some of you only need to do 50% of them, because you're already ahead of the game. The vast majority will only need to do 75% of the work, while just nine mirrors will need to complete all steps to remain in compliance. The spring overhaul will consist of four phases, and will wrap up in totality on 30 June, 2012. These phases, with their respective deadlines, are as follows: * Install pdo_sqlite (31 May, 2012) * Upgrade to PHP>= 5.3.10/5.4.0 (15 June, 2012) * Round-robin country-code configuration (30 June, 2012) * Layered, "geodispersed" rsync (30 June, 2012) == PHASE 1: PDO_SQLITE == The first phase is so simple, and affects so few of you, that I've only allotted two weeks, and that's still more than enough time. Because of this, no extensions will be granted beyond the deadline date. The only mirrors who need to add support for pdo_sqlite as of this moment are: CN.PHP.NET (Dai Yun Jie) FI.PHP.NET (Sami Louko) GR2.PHP.NET (Spyros Ioakim) ID.PHP.NET (Budi Setiawan) IT.PHP.NET (Sandro Tosi) PA.PHP.NET (Oscar Echeverry) RO.PHP.NET (Werner Wasicsek) RU.PHP.NET (Yaroslav Gorodetsky) RU2.PHP.NET (Dmitry Morozovsky) Please note that, at this time, we are requiring pdo_sqlite, not pdo_sqlite2, sqlite3, or anything else. You may feel free to install any other SQLite extension(s) you'd like, and are encouraged to also install pdo_sqlite2, but we require the installation and availability of pdo_sqlite on all mirrors. == PHASE 2: PHP UPGRADE == The PHP upgrade requirement will affect 90 mirrors in total (only 19 as of today are compliant with the new requirement). Many of you probably recall the last overhaul, when we finally rid the network of PHP4. This time around, it will affect many, many more mirrors, but the upgrade won't be nearly as drastic. All we need you to do is upgrade your mirror to PHP 5.3>= 5.3.10, or PHP 5.4>= 5.4.0. You can choose which branch you'd like to use, and are strongly advised to compare the differences prior to upgrading. The deadline for this phase is set for 15 June, 2012 (one month from today), and can be extended to 30 June, 2012, if you contact me NO LATER THAN 1 June, 2012. Requests for deadlines after 1 June, 2012, will be rejected for all but the most compelling of reasons, and acceptance will be judged on a case-by-case basis. On or before 1 June, however, extensions will be automatically granted upon request. == PHASE 3: ROUND-ROBIN == Round-robin country code configuration --- this is something I had initially considered and opted to avoid, but then Hannes Magnusson (bjori), a long-time PHP project centerpiece, made some very strong arguments in favor of doing this, and I couldn't agree more. All we need you, the maintainer, to do on your end is to add a numberless ServerAlias reference of your mirror to your Apache configuration file. So, for example, if your mirror is CA2.PHP.NET (which is one I provide), you would add: ServerAlias ca.php.net. Please also retain your existing hostname configuration. Caveat: if your mirror does not have a number, you will need to do one more step; you will need to add XX1.PHP.NET as a ServerAlias. So, for example, Jaime Echeverry runs the primary mirror in Switzerland, CH.PHP.NET. In his case, he will keep that hostname, but also add the ServerAlias entry of CH1.PHP.NET. When this step has been completed, I need each and every one of you to send an email to php-mirrors@lists.php.net and CC me (danbrown@php.net) so that I can update your record in our system and enable the round-robin load-balancing for your country. The deadline for this phase is set for 30 June, 2012, and can be extended to 15 July, 2012, if you contact me NO LATER THAN 15 June, 2012. Requests for deadlines after 15 June, 2012, will be rejected for all but the most compelling of reasons, and acceptance will be judged on a case-by-case basis. On or before 15 June, however, extensions will be automatically granted upon request. == PHASE 4: LAYERED RSYNC == In a move that is the very epitome of the phrase "better late than never," we're finally going to implement something I designed back in January, 2011. And thanks to the patience of Mark Scholten (NL.PHP.NET), we can still make it happen almost a year-and-a-half after its conception. The plan is to reduce the load on the rsync server (RSYNC.PHP.NET), distribute the data for redundancy, and speed up the entire process, making network-wide updates much quicker and much more reliable. Please see http://links.parasane.net/r5sh for more information on this. To complete this phase, all you'll need to do is update your cron script, based upon your mirror's physical location in accordance with the map on the link provided above, to pull from your regional rsync node (RRN). After this is complete, no one should be pulling from the master rsync server except for the three RRNs. This phase will not begin until the RRNs are all in place sometime during the month of May, but I will make another announcement when your local RRN is available so that you can make the necessary changes, and will be sure to provide ample time for you to complete the changeover and remain in compliance. The deadline for this phase is set for 30 June, 2012, and can be extended to 15 July, 2012, if you contact me NO LATER THAN 15 June, 2012. Requests for deadlines after 15 June, 2012, will be rejected for all but the most compelling of reasons, and acceptance will be judged on a case-by-case basis. On or before 15 June, however, extensions will be automatically granted upon request. That's it for now. If anyone has any questions, please don't hesitate to reply-all to this email. Otherwise, folks, I'm looking forward to working with you all through this overhaul and having it completed on time by everyone involved (including myself). Please feel free to work ahead of schedule, as well (with the exception of the layered rsync servers, of course), and let me know about your progress. ALSO: Please remember to inform me when you've added the required ServerAlias for your mirror so that I can update your mirror in our system. And again, thank you all very much for everything you do. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/