On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 23:56 +0100, OpenPKG wrote: > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 2005-11-28 > > OpenPKG Registry finally launched! > > http://www.openpkg.org/ -- Munich, DE -- 2005-11-28 -- > As a consequence of the changed environmental conditions of OpenPKG > during the year 2005, the OpenPKG project needs to finally shift its > focus from the requirements of a single predominant sponsor towards > the needs of a highly distributed and diverse community. > > To meet this target it is vital to the OpenPKG project to know its > community. Unfortunately, experience showed that optional community > feedback gains just little attention. As a result, the OpenPKG project > still has not sufficiently explored its community in both size and > scope. To throw in a gear and build a much stronger relationship with > its community the OpenPKG project is forced to now pull essential > information from its community through mandatory methods.
I may have missed something at some point, but if it's information of how many servers we have openpkg installed on, why can't we just fill out an online form? I would be more than happy to do that. For that matter, the registry bit could be quite a bit less intrusive by just having it send the information you desire. My main point is, why not try to see how many of us setup the registry first, then if folks don't respond to that, pull the plug on rsync and other anonymous access? It would be better than pulling the plug and having mirrors that a bunch of us have get wiped out overnight. I, for one, can easily send you output from my automatic update process which would tell you the packages we have installed as well as the all of the options used on the number of servers that exist. I guess I didn't realize that all of this was going to be breaking in an overnight swoop and now it's caused a bunch of recovery work in our processes. > > Everything available from the OpenPKG project is a free and open > offering and remains this way, of course. Additionally, since years it > was also possible to grab all of the OpenPKG offerings anonymously. In > order to receive information about the community this anonymous access > now is no longer provided for accessing the full range of OpenPKG > offerings. From now on only the latest OpenPKG-RELEASE (without > updates) is accessible anonymously. > > A registration is now required to access all other download resources. > Access is granted upon a free of charge registration as an OpenPKG > fellow user, registration of at least one installed OpenPKG instance > and a configured relationship between these two entities. > > Please note that everything available from the OpenPKG project remains > available free of charge and as open source software. Only anonymous > access to our offerings is now restricted in order to better assess > the OpenPKG installation base and start to understand the demands of > the OpenPKG community. > > Please actively support the OpenPKG project with your registration! > More details can be found under http://registry.openpkg.org/help > > MORE INFORMATION > > The OpenPKG Project OpenPKG Foundation e.V. > http://www.openpkg.org/ http://www.openpkg.net/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +49-172-8986801 (CET) +49-172-8986801 (CET) > > ______________________________________________________________________ > The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org > Project Announcement List openpkg-announce@openpkg.org > -- David M. Fetter - UNIX Systems Administrator Portland State University "There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't."
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