RE: [PHP-DEV] Retiring PHP's Mirror Program

Hello team! I've been happily sponsoring 3 mirrors in 3 countries for several years. It feels a bit sad to see the mirror program go away. I will be happy to provide any further support to the best of my capacity. Would you consider having a page for former mirror maintainers to mention them all? Something like a wall of former sponsors. Several open source projects rely on mirrors to offer downloads and for many of them it's kind of a business card to show which other projects I (we) are supporting already, so having a reference back from PHP.net would be really nice to have. Plus, to be honest, a link back is always appreciated. : - ) Thanks again! All the best, Jaime Andres ________________________________ De: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> Enviado: jueves, 14 de marzo de 2019 20:46 Para: Mark Scholten Cc: 'PHP Developers Mailing List'; 'PHP Mirrors ML' Asunto: RE: [PHP-DEV] Retiring PHP's Mirror Program Hi, The plan is to start rolling this out somewhere in the next two weeks, pending solving the problem of not 404ing the xx.php.net URLs. What I would like to do is, to 301 redirect these to the canonical URLs so that search indexes etc can get updated over time. But, I don't quite know where to host that service. Turning off the mirror scripts etc is going to be trivial to do, and our CDN is already set-up to do php.net and www.php.net<http://www.php.net> (but doesn't get the later traffic yet). I think we want to scale down our mirroring infrastructure alltogether, although I see a use for companies being able to run internal mirrors. I do think we should not have multiple rsync mirrors though. Let me know what you think and your opinions are. cheers, Derick On Thu, 14 Mar 2019, Mark Scholten wrote: > Hello, > > A timeline would be nice and information on if locally mirroring it (on an internal hostname) > will still be possible. > > Also it would be nice to know if you will be contacting the rsync mirror maintainers and what > you want to do with them. > > I've said before and I will repeat again: let me know where I can help and if possible I > will. > > Kind regards, > > Mark Scholten > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Levi Morrison [mailto:levim@php.net] > > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 16:37 > > To: Derick Rethans > > Cc: PHP Developers Mailing List; PHP Mirrors ML > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Retiring PHP's Mirror Program > > > > Any update on this? One commonly requested feature on the downloads > > page can be implemented once the mirrors are gone, which is to > > directly link to to the file (instead of a Choose a Mirror page). > > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:28 AM Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > The PHP.net website has in the last 20 years made use of an extensive > > > network of mirrors_ to make the PHP documentation available, and > > > distribute source tarballs_. These mirrors have been maintained by > > > members and companies in the PHP eco-system for many valuable years. > > > However, the administration of the mirror system is often haphazard, > > > with few contributors helping out—PHP is Open Source, and this is simply > > > how these things can go. > > > > > > Maintaining the mirrors is now no longer sustainable, and also hinders > > > the take up of moving the PHP.net website fully to HTTPS. Because the > > > PHP.net team has no access to the mirror servers, we also can't make > > > sure the mirrors are up-to-date, and some mirrors are still running PHP > > > 5.3 (actually, about 25% still run PHP 5.3!). > > > > > > It is likely no longer necessary to have a mirror system in place, as > > > unlike 20 years ago, it is not nearly has hard as setting up a > > > distributed cache system. As a matter of fact, some of the PHP.net web > > > site, through http://www.php.net/, already sits > > > behind a Content > > > Delivery Network (CDN) from Myra_, which is sponsored by long time PHP > > > contributor Sascha Schumann. > > > > > > With these preliminaries out of the way, I would therefore like to > > > announce the discontinuation of PHP.net's mirroring program. Instead of > > > having mirrors, we are moving all of PHP.net to HTTPS (and get rid of > > > https://secure.php.net), and move them behind > > > Myra's CDN, with the > > same > > > local content delivery opportunities, but at significantly less > > > administration requirements. > > > > > > In the next week or so, I will e-mail out a plan on which steps are > > > necessary for this move. I'd be happy to hear any comments on when the > > > plan comes out. > > > > > > To end this email, I would very much like to thank all the mirror > > > maintainers for their dedication, time, and bandwidth over all these > > > years. Thanks! > > > > > > cheers, > > > Derick > > > > > > .. _mirrors: http://php.net/mirrors.php > > > .. _tarballs: http://uk3.php.net/downloads.php > > > .. _Myra: https://myracloud.com/en/ > > > > > > -- > > > https://derickrethans.nl | > > > https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io > > > Like Xdebug? 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