Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: The future of GNU Arch users

[Milan Cvetkovic]

James Blackwell wrote:

>>>Thanks to things like the supermirror, you don't need to pay any
>>>webhosting. The Supermirror supports baz today, but will support bzr in
>>>the future.
>>
>>Can you elaborate on this feature a little bit? How does it work, and
>>how does it allow me to host an archive at my ISP who provides me with
>>some ftp/http storage?
> 
> 
> It means that you don't need to use the cheap isp at all.

You should probably add "if you intend to host "Open Software". If I
understand correctly, one of the conditions to have an archive mirrored
is "That your archive only contains free software (ex. I don't have any
proprietary stuff in my archive that will get James sued)"

I have to use cheap ISP if any one of the following is true:
- I want to host "non-free" SW
- sourcecontrol.net goes down for whatever reason.

This is why I find it important feature of tla to have "dumb file
servers" for storage.