Thomas, here's one for FWN for the Infrastructure page. There's lots more going in with koji, the build systems, etc. that I haven't been involved with that'd be good to include too. * Fedora Mirror System Fedora is fortunate to have nearly 200 volunteer mirror sites globally which helps distribute CD and DVD images, OS installs and updated packages to nearly 3 million systems [1]. Managing the list of mirror sites and their content had been a tedious manual process. In late October 2006, the Fedora Infrastructure team recognized the need to automate managing the mirror list. In January 2007, MattDomsch started working on code in earnest with the goal of being in production by the Fedora 7 release. With help from the entire Infrastructure team, especially Toshio Kuratomi, Mike McGrath, Seth Vidal, and Luke Macken, that system is now in place. Mirrormanager[2] is licensed under the MIT/X11 license and is written using the TurboGears web application framework. It includes: * a database of mirror sites, individual mirror hosts, content carried such as Core, Extras, EPEL, and soon the Fedora Releases. Mirrors may choose to carry whichever subsets of the whole tree they wish. * an administration web app for mirror admins to manage detail about their own site. * a web crawler that crawls each mirror site several times a day updating the database with what they carry * the yum mirrorlist handler which tells yum the list of mirrors to try. With this system in place, users should begin to see faster yum downloads, from a mirror in your country if possible. You can see the whole list of mirrors by country and content[3]. We're always looking for additional mirrors. If you would like to provide a public Fedora mirror, please see [4]. Troubles with new system should be reported to fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx or #fedora-admin on FreeNode. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics [2] https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/mirrormanager [3] http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring Thanks, Matt Fedora Mirror Wrangler -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
