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Contact Information
Owner: Fedora Infrastructure Team
Contact: #fedora-admin, sysadmin-main, fedora-infrastructure-list
Location: Phoenix
Servers: secondary1, netapp[1-3]
Purpose: Policy regarding hosting, removal and pruning of content.
Scope: download.fedora.redhat.com, alt.fedoraproject.org, archives.fedoraproject.org, secondary.fedoraproject.org, torrent.fedoraproject.org
Description
Fedora hosts a Fedora content and some non-Fedora content. Our resources are finite and as such we have to have some policy around when to remove old content. This SOP describes the test to remove content. The spirit of this SOP is to allow more people to host content and give it a try, prove that it's useful. If it's not popular or useful, it will get removed. Also out of date or expired content will be removed.
What hosting options are available
Aside from the hosting at http://fedorahosted.org/ we have a series of mirrors we're allowing people to use. They are located at:
- http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/ - For archives
- http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/ - For secondary architectures
- http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/ - For misc content / catchall
- http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ - For torrent hosting
- http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ - for Torrent spins hosting
- http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/ - For official Fedora Releases
Who can host? What can be hosted?
Any official Fedora content can be mirrored and hosted. Official content is determined by the Board by virtue of allowing people to use the Fedora trademark. People representing these teams will be allowed to host.
Non Official Hosting
People wanting to host unofficial bits may request approval for hosting. Create a ticket at https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ explaining what and why Fedora should host it.
Licensing
Anything hosted with Fedora _must_ come with a Free software license that is approved by Fedora. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing for more.
Requesting Space
- Make sure you have a Fedora account - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/
- Ensure you have signed the CLA
- Put a hosting request in at https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/
- Include Space requirements
Content Pruning / Purging / Removal
The following guidelines / tests will be used to determine whether or not to remove content from the mirror.
Expired / Old Content
If content meets any of the following criteria it may be removed:
- Content that has reached the end of life.
- Pre-release content that has been superceeded.
- EOL releases that have been moved to archives.
- N-2 or greater releases. If more than 3 versions of a piece of content are on the mirror, the oldest may be removed.
Limited Use Content
If content meets any of the following criteria it may be removed:
- Content with exceedingly limited seeders or downloaders. with little prospect of increasing those numbers and which is older then 1 year.
- Content such as videos or audio which are several years old.