[Jenkins-infra] Adding Seville JAM as an Infra Sponsor

Manuel Jesús Recena Soto recena at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 16:01:41 UTC 2018


Hello Tyler,

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 5:39 PM, R. Tyler Croy <tyler at monkeypox.org> wrote:

> (replies inline)
>
> On Thu, 02 Aug 2018, Manuel Jes?s Recena Soto wrote:
>
> > Hello Tyler,
> >
> > >
> > > As Olivier mentioned, mirrors will eventually be replaced by
> centralized
> > > distribution via Azure. What he did not mention is that mirrors have
> > > already
> > > been replaced for any TLS-based traffic, which has been served from
> Azure
> > > for
> > > months.
> > >
> >
> > I'm not sure if I'm understanding this part. Could you provide more
> > detailed information?
>
>
> I'm not sure which part you're referring to, so I'll add more details to
> both!
> \o/
>
> 1) Centralized distribution via Azure is a work in progress effort by
> Olivier
>    which he linked in this document: https://github.com/jenkins-
> infra/iep/pull/17o
>    This effort will move _all_ our primarily distribution to Azure which
> will
>    resullt in mirrors not being used except by those who explicitly chose
> to
>    use the mirrors. In essence, mirrorbrain will be turned off and
>    mirrors.jenkins.io will only redirect to the Azure CDN.
>

Then I should shut down the EU mirror. Right?

It does not make sense to spend money and personal time when the direction
is other.


>
> 2) TLS-based traffic on Azure. For almost a year (I think), Linux clients
> with
>    a package repository of `https://pkg.jenkins.io/` have been redirected
>    TLS-based storage on Azure to ensure that the protocol remains secure.
> You can
>    see this behavior with:
>
>         % wget -O /dev/null --debug https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian/
> binary/jenkins_2.135_all.deb
>
>    This is _only_ for those with an HTTPs apt/yum repository configured
> since Apt
>    doesn't handle protocol upgrades properly unless apt-transport-https is
>    installed.
>
> > > I'm happy to merge a pull request to jenkins.io adding whatever
> > > non-personal
> > > entity should be considered responsible for mirrors.seville-jam.es to
> the
> > > list
> > > where XMission already exists. We already list OSUOSL and XMission who
> are
> > > mirror operators.
> > >
> >
> > Well, this seems a "personal" entity since this is my personal effort and
> > dedication.
>
> I suggest simply listing "Seville JAM" then, I wouldn't consider myself a
> "sponsor" of the Jenkins project despite all my personal-time effort which
> has
> gone into the project over the last ten years :P
>

I believe this won't be needed.

Regards,


>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>


-- 
Manuel Recena Soto
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