Re: Re: Why are there mirrors?

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 4:40 PM Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 at 12:55, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote: > > > Den lør. 27. okt. 2018 kl. 22.52 skrev Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com > > >: > > > But yes, perhaps it is time to end the mirror program and just CDN *. > > php.net. > > > What do others think? > > > > From a webmaster standpoint, I think it would ease management greatly > > to finally update that part of the infrastructure as often mirrors > > have some interested and hard to debug bugs. > > > Any change that will lessen the maintenance burden of the websites, gets a > thumbs up from me. As do changes that would get us (or more easily get us) > things like full HTTPS coverage, current software versions (and keeping > them up-to-date), etc. > > > > Besides, there isn't that > > many around who actively looks into mirrors so I think its just a > > win-win for us all. > > > > Would we necessarily have more heads actively looking into whatever > replaces the mirror system? I wouldn't want us to swap one system that one > person looks after with another system that one person looks after. > > I'm not sure if this counts as in scope for this particular discussion, but > there was talk some years ago of making "the website" (i.e. what gets > mirrored currently) more static; in particular not requiring the mirrors > run PHP by, for example, generating HTML instead of PHP files for the > manual, etc. There will need to be some changes made to make the website > more CDN-friendly anyway. > > > > > > > > > -- > > regards, > > > > Kalle Sommer Nielsen > > kalle@php.net > > > > -- > > PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > Amen. If we can control the servers then we can do a much better job of upgrading and maintaining them. Rolling out end-to-end HTTPS as things stand today is intractable.