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[Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>]

On Friday 02 January 2004 06:29 am, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:
> Hamish Greig a écrit :
> >>- ISO LOCATION:
> >>---------------
> >>
> >>In order for people to download the correct version, annoucement message
> >>  should contain a full http link to the .iso.bz2 file. "latest" file
> >>are forbidden.
> >>
> >>So, those link must be maintained over time, that's why moving file to
> >>either "older-i386-versions" or "older-ppc-versions" should NOT occur.
> >
> > I *strongly* disagree. WE are talking about 130+ MB files, if we did as
> > you suggested, within a short periiod of time (sixmonths - a year ) we
> > would have hundreds of files in that top dir, most of them quite large in
> > size (130MB+). Several solutions to this follow, But I am strongly
> > against having everything bundled into a single dir, no matter what
> > reason.
>
> What is the problem with having hundreds of file in a directory? For
> other software, most recent version are kept in the same directory.
>

My personal opinion on this is that a directory with lots of files is messy, 
it's hard to find what you're looking for, and it's prone to download errors 
by selecting the wrong file.  But that's just me.  :^)


>
> > If we are going to spend time
> > discussing minor issues like filenames and locations, we should also (and
> > more importantly) be discussing what the ISO/Cauldron team needs to get
> > back onto track and meet it's deadlines and what help it needs in dealing
> > with the open bugs it has.
>
> I thought that was minor issues too... but it seems that everyone is
> doing its own method. That's why I asked those questions.
>
> I'd like to have web stats on http://download.sourcemage.org/ to see how
> much 404 errors gets generated when files are moved. That would bring
> some objective datas into the discussion.
>
> Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO Guru

Since Dec. 1, 2003, there were about 4% 404 errors.  A large number of them 
(half?) appear to be from spiders or bots of some kind, but I could be 
mistaken on that.  As soon as I can figure out a way to reliably access the 
log files and figure out the best software to display the stats with, I will 
do so.  However, my current priority is the securing of the Wiki, which 
involves installing a CMS or CMS-like system.  That is taking me longer than 
I thought it would, but once it is in place, I will have download stats 
available, as much as our host allows.


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