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  • From: Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Call to mirror!
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 13:21:21 -0600

On Jan 09, Vlad Glagolev [stealth AT tiberian.ru] wrote:
> I already told how a system of fresh mirrors is important to the
> distro, and here you are:

In my experience working with large projects that have mirrors and mirror
offers, the work to prune dead mirrors, coordinate setting up mirrors,
etc., is a right PITA and generally not worth it if the primary site is
reliable. I don't believe we've had a *major* outage of ours since we
originally moved it from the "under a desk" hosting it had once upon a time
to the current setup. So I'm not sure we need mirrors, but if someone is
committed to managing the list so our users don't have a bad experience of
trying to find one that works or is current, then so be it. Though I
really think if we need mirrors, fixing the ibiblio setup or putting
something on another large OSS hosting provider that handles its own
mirrors makes some sense.

> I've prepared a small howto for becoming a mirror. If someone's ready
> to help with mirroring of several parts of SMGL -- feel free to do so.
>
> You can find it here: http://beta.sourcemage.ru/Mirrors/How
>
> Along with that there's a page[0] with status of our current mirrors.
> Correct me if something's missing there, and comments/corrections are
> always welcome.

Not a correction, but a confirmation that master.download.sourcemage.org is
the right thing to use. That one is always supposed to be the main "free"
mirror we have available and that users point to, so we don't eat a bunch
of extra bandwidth costs for the mirrors updating.


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