On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, Nathan Hartman wrote:
I would suggest a CNAME to svn-haxx.apache.org, which Infra would further CNAME to (say) svn-qavm. That would mean Mr Stenberg wouldn't ever need to alter his CNAME record, while the ASF could repoint svn-haxx.a.o at-will over time. Today, the "301 mapping server" could be svn-qavm, but maybe we'd do something different in a few years.
That sounds like a perfect solution from my point of view. I've admined the haxx.se domain for two decades already and for all I know, I will probably do it for a few more so the svn.haxx.se name should be okay for a good while ahead.
If you do what you need to do in your end to get everything setup, and when you think you're good to go I'll be ready to turn it into a CNAME on your call. There's no immediate hurry, the machine will be running for a while longer, most likely through the rest of the year and a little more. I'll leave the rsync setup there for now if you want to update anything during the transition period.
Some old-timers may remember: I was involved in the Subversion project early on, and I did a few commits and it was in that period I figured I'd setup an archive of the lists to make it easier to search and link to posts. I then dropped off the project, but I've left the archive running.
The simple reason I stop now is that this service runs on a very old physical machine that we fear will die at some point and we're moving everything over elsewhere before that happens, and I just couldn't muster the will to do the necessary work for this site to do the jump.
I hope you understand. The fact that you want to work on maintaining the archive at least tells me it has been a good service and that it has servered the project - and that warms my heart.
-- / daniel.haxx.se
