Newsgroups: php.internals,php.mirrors Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:104533 php.mirrors:40932 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 89695 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2019 19:41:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xdebug.org) (82.113.146.227) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 27 Feb 2019 19:41:12 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 70C5E10C73E; Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:27:50 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:27:50 +0000 (GMT) X-X-Sender: derick@singlemalt.home.derickrethans.nl To: PHP Developers Mailing List , php-mirrors@lists.php.net Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323329-668379055-1551284870=:18666" Subject: Retiring PHP's Mirror Program From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) --8323329-668379055-1551284870=:18666 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Hi! The PHP.net website has in the last 20 years made use of an extensive network of mirrors_ to make the PHP documentation available, and distribute source tarballs_. These mirrors have been maintained by members and companies in the PHP eco-system for many valuable years. However, the administration of the mirror system is often haphazard, with few contributors helping out=E2=80=94PHP is Open Source, and this is s= imply how these things can go. Maintaining the mirrors is now no longer sustainable, and also hinders the take up of moving the PHP.net website fully to HTTPS. Because the PHP.net team has no access to the mirror servers, we also can't make sure the mirrors are up-to-date, and some mirrors are still running PHP 5.3 (actually, about 25% still run PHP 5.3!). It is likely no longer necessary to have a mirror system in place, as unlike 20 years ago, it is not nearly has hard as setting up a distributed cache system. As a matter of fact, some of the PHP.net web site, through http://www.php.net/, already sits behind a Content Delivery Network (CDN) from Myra_, which is sponsored by long time PHP contributor Sascha Schumann. With these preliminaries out of the way, I would therefore like to announce the discontinuation of PHP.net's mirroring program. Instead of having mirrors, we are moving all of PHP.net to HTTPS (and get rid of https://secure.php.net), and move them behind Myra's CDN, with the same local content delivery opportunities, but at significantly less administration requirements. In the next week or so, I will e-mail out a plan on which steps are necessary for this move. I'd be happy to hear any comments on when the plan comes out. To end this email, I would very much like to thank all the mirror maintainers for their dedication, time, and bandwidth over all these years. Thanks! cheers, Derick =2E. _mirrors: http://php.net/mirrors.php =2E. _tarballs: http://uk3.php.net/downloads.php =2E. _Myra: https://myracloud.com/en/ --=20 https://derickrethans.nl | https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: https://xdebug.org/donate.php, or become my Patron: https://www.patreon.com/derickr twitter: @derickr and @xdebug --8323329-668379055-1551284870=:18666--