On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Guillaume ALAUX <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 September 2010 11:41, Roman Kyrylych <[email protected]> wrote: >> Currently we have almost 90 active mirrors in the official mirror list >> and new requests for becoming an official mirror are appearing quite often. >> However, not all mirrors are good ones (outdated, incomplete, admins >> don't respond, etc). >> I marked inactive many of them during past months (including about 20 >> during FrOSCon), >> and will continue to do this until all of the mirrors meet the requirements. >> >> 22 mirrors that are in the official list did not move to the 2-tier scheme >> yet, >> which means we do not know where do they sync from, >> admins did not respond or there is no known email address of the admin. >> These will be removed from the list very soon.
If they are syncing and up-to-date (http://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/), then why remove them? That seems pretty silly to me. We one remaining that seems to have fallen off the map (unix.pl), 5 that are out of date, and one without a lastsync file. >> If you are using some mirror that was removed from the list recently >> and you know how to contact the admin - let me know. >> >> Considering the fact that there is no package signing support yet >> I don't see a reason why we should have that many mirrors, >> especially when they don't meet the requirements. >> >> Recently I had to defer some requests to become an official mirror >> from some private sites. I apologize that this caused a frustration of >> their admins >> and hope that the reasons are understandable. >> >> To make this fair to everyone I'm thinking about (temporary) putting >> the process of adding new mirrors on hold. >> >> -- >> Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) >> > > Hi Roman, > > On the "mirrors list page" [1] I see 56 "untiered" mirrors. May we > know which are the 22 you mention? > Just say so if you would like some help trying to get in touch with > some mirror admins. You probably missed the "active" column there. > For instance I see these French or Belgian mirrors : > These 2 were removed from the mirrorlist > -ftp.belnet.be > -ftp.free.fr > > And this one is 3 weeks old and untiered: > -mir1.archlinux.fr > > I could try to mail them in French... No one will ever stand in your way of helping out. I'm sure you can chip in; if you start doing a lot you can probably get in the coveted "Mirror Admin" group. :P -Dan
