Hi all, Snapshot is behind Fastly since Sunday Nov 17 2024. I think that's bad and would like to change that. It's bad in the short term since we expose user data to a third party. It's bad in the long term since the short term bad won't go away until we learn how to deal with web traffic.
I have not been able to solve the problem with more incoming HTTP traffic than what the snapshot setup comfortably can deal with. Partly because I'm not very knowledgeable in this field and partly because I have not been given enough access to the cache layer(s). DSA have legitimate concerns about exposing user data to people who do not need access to it. Would it help if my relation to Debian was formalised further than the current status of Debian Contributor? More generally, I sometimes find it hard to understand the roles and responsibilities wrt the snapshot service. This results in me on the one hand being overly cautious with asking for some things and on the other hand sometimes pestering the wrong people, most probably also in the wrong way. It would be good to minimise unnecessary frustration and lost calendar time. There's a Snapshot service meeting today at 1700Z in #debian-snapshot for all who are interested in helping out.
