On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 09:43:16PM -0800, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 07:58:23PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > I think we (DSA) have been reluctant to add new third-party-run services > > under debian.org, and it's not clear to me if that infrastructure would > > be run by the cloud team on behalf of debian, or if the cloud team would > > control the names but point them at mirrors run by the cloud providers > > themselves. > > It depends on the provider, and what you mean by "infrastructure". Many cases > fall into a grey area between your options: > > - AWS: the mirror will be a CloudFront distribution. SPI will own the > account, > the cloud team will create the CDN, but the infrastructure will be AWS. > - Azure, Infomaniak: they contract or employ folks to run mirrors for them. > Cloud team folks are responsible in both cases. > > Speaking for myself only, I'd be be open to providing a name for a provider > that doesn't work with us, and runs their own mirror. This would definitely > not meet your requirement. > Sorry for being unclear. For these purposes the first case would count as debian-run, the second probably not.
Either way a couple of things to think about and maybe document is what are the criteria for providing a name for a vendor, and what happens when the criteria are no longer met. Cheers, Julien