Opening subscriptions to mirror-list{,-d} ?

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:48 -0500, Matt_Domsch at Dell.com wrote:
> I would like to propose we remove the subscription administrative
> confirmation for mirror-list and mirror-list-d.
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> As best as I can tell, the primary users of these lists are Fedora
> mirrors, with a few RHEL source and beta mirrors subscribed too,
> though for those tracked by MirrorManager, they are all also Fedora
> mirrors.
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> We no longer are adding new mirrors to the master mirror rsync ACLs,
> and have not added anyone to the ACLs for at least a year.  Therefore,
> the only “benefit” an admin gets to being on mirror-list from a Red
> Hat corporate perspective would be advanced notice of new bits being
> staged or made available, at most 1 week advance notice.
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> It would simplify the process for mirror admins to sign up, and remove
> an administrative duty that Adrian Reber and I have carried for
> several years.
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> Please advise.
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How about just moving the whole list to lists.fedoraproject.org and
redirecting it from redhat.com entirely.

Then we can deal with it entirely ourselves...

-sv