Re: Forbidden requests for kernel.org/releases.json

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 12:48:45PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-04-11 at 11:25 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 10:18:00AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> [...]
> > > The other alternative that I've tried is to replace git.kernel.org
> > > with kernel.googlesource.com as the git mirror, is supposed to be
> > > only a few minutes behind git.kernel.org and presumably is closer
> > > to a GCE VM from a network perspective.
> > 
> > I'm fine with that as well -- just as long as you keep in mind that
> > it can go away at any time the way many Google things sometimes do.
> > I'm also considering running stable/next/mainline forks on several
> > major forges as mirror-only repos that are updated immediately after
> > each push, so people can use them as an alternative to googlesource.
> 
> Just on this point, the load from AI bots is presumably mostly
> emanating from various public clouds that provide AI services.  It does
> seem to me that those clouds having mirror repositories (even if they
> aren't public) that their AI training would use would help to lower the
> AI bot load on kernel.org and provide faster training to the cloud that
> did this (win/win).  Should kernel.org have an official program to
> facilitate this?

Do we want, as a community, to facilitate GPL violations ?

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart