On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 01:45:01PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 21:00:37 +0200 > Adrian Reber <adrian@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ...snip... > > > > > * Readable status of directories > > > > The Directory table has a 'readable' property, none of our > > > > directories is not readable. > > > > > > > > Question is: what is the use-case for this boolean? > > > > > > Could it be for when we have a release about to come out, but it's > > > not readable to the public yet? Typically we stage a release on > > > friday and until the actual release on tuesday the directory isn't > > > open, only mirrors with the acls can sync it. > > > > Yes, that's also what I remember about it. Although I am not sure if > > we still need it. As we bitflip much earlier we have the chance to > > crawl everything before the release. The last few releases we even > > didn't use the data under releases but under development for the > > first few weeks. So this functionality has become pretty useless with > > the current release mechanism. > > I'm not sure I agree. ;) > > We stage a release friday with the directory closed. > True, we have been doing the bit-flip sooner, but usually it's late > monday night so more mirrors will be synced for the release tuesday > morning. > > So, if we remove this, what happens friday->monday night? > ie, what does property do? Does it use the info for seeing if something > is up to date, or just if it's set it doesn't give out metalinks with > those paths? or ? Matt, do you remember how the 'readable' property works? Thanks, Pierre
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