Hello Matt, My FAS username is damian and my email is Damian.Myerscough@xxxxxxxxx On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 15:02 -0600, Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Thank you each for volunteering to help with managing Fedora's list of > mirror servers. You have all been added to the email alias > 'mirror-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', which is how you are getting this > email. > > First, please send me your Fedora Account System username, as presumably > the email address stored in the FAS for you is where you want these > mails to go. > > > Second, I recommend you subscribe to the relatively low volume > fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx , which is where all the > interesting Infrastructure discussion happens. > (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list). > This includes outage notices, freeze changes, and the like. > > Third, we are always happy to have more mirrors, provided they have > sufficient capacity to really be of benefit. In the US and Europe, we > don't really need more mirrors. Rest of the world, we definitely do. > Requests will come to the mirror-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx address, and > will need a response. Be sure to "reply to all". I'll append my > template. Be sure to copy ftp+fedora@xxxxxxxxxx and mirror-admin on > your reply, so everyone sees it, and so the rsync ACL on the master > download servers will get updated. Rule of thumb: new mirrors with >= > 1Gbit pipes, or in countries not already well-served (such as India, > China, or anything in South America or South Africa) should be approved. > Mirrors on DSL/Cable modem lines in the US or Europe, thanks, but no. > Private mirrors should be directed to pull from a listed public mirror. > When approved, you should then approve their subscriptions to > mirror-list and mirror-list-d. There's a password required to moderate > that list. Not sure how best to handle that aspect... > > Fourth, the MirrorManager code itself. > https://fedorahosted.org/mirrormanager/wiki/WikiStart has instructions, > and a list of items known needing love is at > https://fedorahosted.org/mirrormanager/wiki/HelpWanted. I cut my python > teeth writing this code, and it's had a few reviews, but there are > probably ways to make it better. The TG controller pieces are really > pretty hokey - nothing as nice as the bodhi code is. > > If you've got other ideas, by all means, please let us know. > > Thanks, > Matt > > -- > Matt Domsch > Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO > linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux > > > Public Mirror Acceptance Template > > We would be pleased to have you as a public mirror. Thank you for your > contribution to Fedora! > > > Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring > for guidance, and register your mirror in Mirrormanager at > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager. By doing so, you will > appear on the mirror list for Fedora 7 and future automatically. > > Most mirrors should rsync from one of the Tier 1 mirrors listed at > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring or from another > mirror close network-wise listed on > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/. > > > Thanks again, > > Matt > Fedora Mirror Wrangler > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list > Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list -- Regards, Damian Myerscough _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
