Problem with the fix to PR 10234

[Joe Buck]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:17:49AM -0800, Janis Johnson wrote:

> I understand the desire for consistency among the components of the
> GNU Project.  It's vitally important, though, for GCC to provide URLs
> that can be accessed reliably.  I'd like to push back on this before
> reverting the patches.

You can hold off a little more, Gerald is still trying to convince
RMS.  But we may have to do it.  The deadline for deciding is the 3.2.3
release; by that release, either we need to put the old URL back or
we need to get permission to change it.

> Before changing back the URL in ICE messages I'd like to know what the
> problems were that caused the old URL to get only blank pages for a few
> days, and to have some assurances that the URL can be accessed reliably
> in the future.

We'll try to get a commitment from RMS that he lean on the webmasters
to be more responsive about fixing any problems.  He was puzzled (as
was I) as to why a broken mirror wouldn't just have a stale copy, but
the key issue with me is that the FSF webmasters aren't diligent about
quickly responding to problems.