On Tuesday 26 August 2003 22:48, Paul Dorman wrote: > but I'm peeved You are not alone.
> This happens too often (like, every day). Can the maintainers > **pah-lease** sort out the mirror situation. That gets my vote. I have posted on this list and 1 or 2 others have. Perhaps everyone in control things everything is hunky dory because so few complain. Maybe because there actually are so few who have not given up totally. Frequently when it all blows up in their faces after release we get the "well nobody told me so I assumed it was all right" type of posting. How many people are actually trying to test on as near to production as possible machines, I doubt more than a handful. There cannot be many because the mirror debacle over the last few days has not created a mass of postings. Mirrors all over the world have not been updating, mirrors have multiple versions of the same package. I receive changelogs that never reach a mirror. Mirrors have stale Carroll archiving messages. The primary mirror link on Cooker's home page hadn't updated for days. The two highest bandwidth mirrors in France club-internet and proxad had not been updated for days, proxad in fact had zero length files. The plea is always please test, give us the means to test and we will. > I will not participate in > the testing process if it means that I have to needlessly waste 100s of > megabytes of downloads on a daily basis. What about your time? > We need a mirror status page, and a mirror master to ensure that mirrors > are as they should be. Sorry to say this but it should not be forgotten that Mandrake is not out of the woods yet, another 9.1 and it could be the end of the line. -- Dave Cotton Directeur Linux Autrement
