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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Mar 20, Eric Sandall [eric AT sandall.us] wrote:
> On Saturday 17 March 2007 14:13:49 Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > I'm working on getting some data mirroring infrastructure in place so we
> > aren't dependent on ibiblio uptime and speed.  What I'm working on will 
> > let
> > us use the paid servers to point to currently active mirrors, to allow
> > us to take advantage of offers for mirrors on high bandwidth pipes even if
> > they aren't up all the time (home lines, uni lines, other free stuff,
> > etc.).
> >
> > Anyway, as part of this I'm rearranging the content on ibiblio to be a
> > little more organized and easier to mirror / monitor.  I'm leaving 
> > symlinks
> > to all the old locations so no one should notice anything different, but
> > those of you that do uploads should at least be aware of it.
> >
> > The new layout should look something like:
> >
> > without symlinks:
> >
> > download.sourcemage.org
> >  cauldron/
> >   image/
> 
> I assume this is for chroot/Xen images?

Yes.  Official and contributed image tarballs (which can be used for
chroots, or xen disks, or anything that else that takes a regular tarball
or disk image) as well as disk images of a non-standard format (vmware,
qemu, etc).

> >   iso/
> 
> As long as we leave the iso -> cauldron/iso symlink up for 
> download.sourcemage.org, this should be fine, but I don't think it'd be a 
> good idea to 'hide' the ISO directory under a name which people new to SMGL 
> won't understand. Most will understand "iso" as where to get our installer, 
> but "cauldron"?

That's why I listed the "with symlinks" version too.  All the symlinks from
the old locations are there (the rearranging has been done since Sunday), I
just listed the real directories without symlinks as where things "really"
are.

> >  grimoire/
> >   codex/      (aka codex.sourcemage.org)
> >   distro/
> >   fallback/   (aka fallback.sourcemage.org)
> >  misc/
> >   projects/
> 
> Perhaps drop the "misc" and have "projects" at the top, since by definition 
> they'd be "projects other than the already listed".

There are misc things that we have reason to make available there but
aren't projects we intend to release for people to use.  We just don't have
any up there yet.

> >  sorcery/
> >   sounds/
> >  tmp/
> 
> Do we really still want this publicly available and mirrored?

I imagine it depends on what it is.  Better a location to put things that
don't fit somewhere else than have people throwing them in random existing
categories.  The things that likely belong here now are tmp upload
locations which have to exist whether or not they are visible from the web
and mirrored.

> >  tome/
> >   logos/
> >   screenshots/
> <snip>
> 
> Perhaps also "documentation", depending on if we want to have 
> plain-text/TeX/etc. versions of our documentation available.

If we ever have that available, sure.  I'm just dealing with what we have
now.

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