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

2010/3/8 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
> <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> 2010/3/7 Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)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?

They are a community product, built by EDB.

Kind of like the RPMs are a community product, built by either
commandprompt or devrim.

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