[ocaml-infra] caml.inria.fr/pub will be down in Jan 2016 for 48 hours

[Ashish Agarwal]

Yes, this has been discussed with Inria. Xavier has told me they would
prefer to keep managing the pub/ directory on Inria's server. Given this is
all static content, storing in git wouldn't necessarily be a great choice
anyway (though we do have the ocaml.org-media repo for that purpose).


On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:48 AM, Fabrice Le Fessant <
Fabrice.Le_fessant at inria.fr> wrote:

> I think the idea behind keeping /pub/ on caml.inria.fr is to
> authenticate that a particular tarball is the official INRIA's
> version, not a fork modified by the community. It does make sense for
> me, although we could even limit INRIA's contribution to publishing
> checksums for tarballs that would be hosted on ocaml.org.
>
> --Fabrice
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:56 AM, François Bobot <francois.bobot at cea.fr>
> wrote:
> > On 01/10/2015 21:06, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
> >>
> >> (As a reminder, all of caml.inria.fr <http://caml.inria.fr>
> >> is deprecated, except for caml.inria.fr/pub/*
> >> <http://caml.inria.fr/pub/*>, which continues to be
> >> the source of static content such as tarballs.)
> >
> >
> > Did some people talk to Damien Doligez, as OCaml release manager, about
> > moving http://caml.inria.fr/pub/* to ocaml.org?
> >
> > PS: Github now support git lfs[1] but I never tested this tools for
> managing
> > big files in git.
> >
> > [1] https://git-lfs.github.com/
> >
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