This was sent to our mirror discussion list. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: wow.. why mirror? Date: Wednesday 25 October 2006 19:11 From: Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:20, Paul Hall wrote: > I'm wondering this very question too. Our site isn't even showing up on the > list of mirrors and on the other list of mirrors isn't listed correctly. We > haven't seen *any* traffic for core 6 since its release. I'm trying to > decide if theres any reason for us to continue to be a mirror and dedicate > resources to this. The job of managing mirrors fell onto me when I joined Red Hat. Dumped is probably a better term. The way mirrors were handled is pretty sad, there are _lots_ of files to edit, and a huge amount of duplicated data. Also there is no way for mirrors to make updates themselves or add / remove themselves. It's all done via email and CVS. I had requested some help in the Fedora community managing these mirrors and I got some initially, however that help seems to have dried up and I'm left to handle it all myself again. As you can expect, I was a bit busy the last couple days, and will continue to be for a while. Noticing that your mirror isn't listed the day or so of the release isn't great, as I'm not going to be able to get to it. Add to this the fact that redhat.com was getting attacked, and fedora.redhat.com is where the mirror source files lived. SO while I could change it in CVS, I would _then_ have to change it in at least 2 other places for our emergency static listings. This is by far not optimal especially on days when I have 0 extra time. Where do we go from here? We obviously need a way for mirror admins to manage their own mirror listings, and a way to submit mirror data to ONE source, and that source would be used to generate URLs to the various bits under fedora/core or fedora/extras. Nothing should change from that point lower anyway. Now that we have methods to verify mirrors are up to date, and sort by geoip, all we really need is your base URL(s). Lets see if we can get this done before the next Fedora test release. How can you help? See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure for information on how to contact our infrastructure team and help on the mirror management project. Until we get such a system up, I'm not all that interested in continuing to make fine tunes to the multitude of mirror files we have scattered around. Lets clean it up by moving to a new system. And yes, we deeply appreciate any and all mirrors. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora ------------------------------------------------------- -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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