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

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

On 5 Oct 2015, at 18:13, François Bobot <francois.bobot at cea.fr> wrote:
> 
> On 02/10/2015 16:01, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:30 AM, François Bobot <francois.bobot at cea.fr
>> <mailto:francois.bobot at cea.fr>> wrote:
>> 
>>    I will ask on devel to Xavier and Damien to know where they stand.
>> 
>> 
>> Sure, but what is the benefit? Do you see any problems with the current setup?
>> 
> 
> It is only of cosmetic benefit, yet by moving to ocaml.org:
> - we could always use this website instead of caml.inria.fr in the readme file, except for the bugtracker.
> - bts.ocaml.org could redirect to mantis. (NB: caml.inria.fr doesn't have https, unlike ocaml.org and mantis seems not uptodate "Copyright © 2000 - 2011 MantisBT Group")
> - we could make `http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/` share the nice style of ocaml.org
> 

It also marginally matters for TLS certificates -- we have a wildcard one for ocaml.org, and so could use that as a root of trust for code signing releases in the future.  Not sure if one exists for caml.inria.fr.

-anil



> 
> Xavier Leroy wrote:
>> On 02/10/2015 15:51, François Bobot wrote:
>>>  In your comment in a merge request[1] I understood that the contents
>>> in caml.inria.fr/pub/* doesn't go to ocaml.org in order to keep the job
>>> of Damien the release manager easy. Previously Fabrice and I though the
>>> reason was to keep /pub/ on caml.inria.fr in order to authenticate that
>>> a particular tarball is the official INRIA's version, not a fork
>>> modified by the community.
>> 
>> Yes, Fabrice has a point with the authenticity of the sources.  But
>> note that this could be ensured by other means, e.g. GPG detached
>> signatures on releases, like the Linux kernel does.
>> 
>>> Damien, could infrastructure at lists.ocaml.org understand your workflow in
>>> order to mimic it?
>> 
>> Well, at some point of Damien's workflow, it boils down to "drop some
>> files in an NFS-mounted partition so that they are served by
>> http://caml.inria.fr/".  Hard to make it any simpler than that
>> 
>> For those who join the discussion: a problem with caml.inria.fr is
>> that it will be down for 2-3 days in January as it getes moved
>> physically from Rocquencourt to the new offices in Paris.  This will
>> annoy a number of users, esp. since OPAM fetches the OCaml core
>> sources from caml.inria.fr and nowhere else AFAIK.
>> 
>> - Xavier
> 
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