Re: We would like to be an agent for FreeBSD in China
On Sat, 2021-12-04 at 15:26, Jiawei Fu at USTC LUG wrote: > Hi Joe, > I am from the maintenance team of mirrors.ustc.edu.cn, the mirror site > at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). > Thank you for your prompt. I just checked all three links and > confirmed that they're all accessible from mainland China. > We're currently hosting an unofficial FreeBSD repository mirror ( > https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/freebsd/ ), and from your website we learn > that FreeBSD is not accepting new mirrors at this time, which was the > primary reason we refrained from applying for one. Also, we'd like to > note that a few years ago we declined Debian's CNAME for official > mirrors (ftp.cn.debian.org, ftp2.cn.debian.org) for precisely > regulatory reasons. > By the way, in case of any misunderstanding, we do *not* know or have > any affiliation with the original poster of this thread. > Linux User Group > University of Science and Technology of China > Homepage: https://lug.ustc.edu.cn/ > E-Mail: l...@ustc.edu.cn > Jiawei Fu (付佳伟) Hi Jiawei (付佳伟), It's good to know those unofficial mirrors are accessible and that https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/freebsd/ is available for Chinese FreeBSD users as well. I contacted the team that oversees our mirrors and they tentatively said that if the regulatory hurdles could be overcome, an official Chinese mirror is possible. If this is something that your group is interested in and equipped to handle, perhaps we could discuss details off-list. Thank you kindly, Joe signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Joseph Mingrone] Re: We would like to be an agent for FreeBSD in China
Joseph Mingrone 于2021年12月3日周五 13:23写道： > > Hi delphij@ and ygy@, > > I suspect you may have more knowledge on this subject than me. If there > is any chance of hosting a mirror site in mainland China, it would be > great for Chinese users and the Project. I'm told there are big > hurdles, but it may be possible. What do you think? Are you able to > help? Thanks Joe for looping me in - I CC'ed delphij@ (since the last CC was not successful) and lwhsu@ (for further mirror-related questions). > On Fri, 2021-12-03 at 19:07, kaik haven wrote: > > > We call ourselves the "FreeBSD Chinese Community", a team from China, and > > we have been working to get more people to use FreeBSD in China. Of course, > > we have encountered a lot of problems, such as: Chinese users always have > > trouble installing FreeBSD on their computers, because there is no official > > mirror site, and the closest one to mainland China is in Taiwan, and we > > have no way to connect to an official mirror site for policy reasons; > > there is no unified mainland China user group or foundation to > > help mainland FreeBSD users. We have contacted you and the University of > > Science and Technology of China LUG has offered to mirror FreeBSD and be > > one of the official mirror sites, but in the end, no one cared and it went > > away. I understand the hassle of trying to connect to an official mirror in mainland China. As far as I know, there are a couple of usable unofficial mirrors there (not an advice), including: - https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/ - https://mirrors.nju.edu.cn/ We also had extensive discussions about having official mirrors in mainland China in the past, however, we have concluded that it is currently not possible due to regulatory reasons - if anything changes, we'd be happy to revisit this. For the maintainers of unofficial mirrors, please feel free to let clusteradm@ know (and CC me) if there is anything we can do to help improve your experience. > > there is no official documentation in Chinese for users to review, and the > > website for the official Chinese documentation translation project is There > > is no official Chinese documentation available to users, and the official > > Chinese documentation translation project website is inaccessible and > > unmanaged This is not true. As jrm@ pointed out, we have an official website and document translation project in Simplified Chinese. Some of the content is outdated, but the project is still active and can be accessed in mainland China: - https://www.freebsd.org/zh-cn/ - https://docs.freebsd.org/zh-cn/books/handbook/ Anyone interested in contributing can simply register and start translating on the following page: - https://translate-dev.freebsd.org/ You can contact me for any further questions related to document translation, I am happy to provide any assistance for current and future contributors. Best, -- Guangyuan Yang y...@freebsd.org
Re: We would like to be an agent for FreeBSD in China
[Sorry if you receive this twice. I sent the original from the wrong address so it was blocked from the mailing lists.] On Fri, 2021-12-03 at 19:07, kaik haven wrote: > Hello! > We call ourselves the "FreeBSD Chinese Community", a team from China, and > we have been working to get more people to use FreeBSD in China. Of course, > we have encountered a lot of problems, such as: Chinese users always have > trouble installing FreeBSD on their computers, because there is no official > mirror site, and the closest one to mainland China is in Taiwan, and we > have no way to connect to an official mirror site for policy reasons; there > is no official documentation in Chinese for users to review, and the > website for the official Chinese documentation translation project is There > is no official Chinese documentation available to users, and the official > Chinese documentation translation project website is inaccessible and > unmanaged; there is no unified mainland China user group or foundation to > help mainland FreeBSD users. We have contacted you and the University of > Science and Technology of China LUG has offered to mirror FreeBSD and be > one of the official mirror sites, but in the end, no one cared and it went > away. > Also, we would like to be an agent for FreeBSD in China and contribute to > the FreeBSD open source community by providing mirror sites, Chinese > documentation translations, etc. for Chinese FreeBSD users in China. Hello! Thank for the update on the "FreeBSD Chinese Community". We certainly appreciate any efforts to promote FreeBSD in China. There are official Chinese translations of the main page, the Handbook, and other documentation, however I am not able to gauge the quality. https://www.freebsd.org/zh-cn/ https://docs.freebsd.org/zh-cn/books/handbook/ We welcome translation updates. For anyone able and interested in contributing to documentation translation, here is a resource: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Doc/Translation/Weblate Are you saying that all these page are inaccessible from mainland China? Apologies if past queries were missed about hosing a FreeBSD mirror site at University of Science and Technology. We certainly care and if that would improve the situation for Chinese users it's very welcome. How can we help with that? Joe
