On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:46:07AM -0500, Don Head wrote:
> (3.)
> Lastly, a mirror co-ordinator needs to be
> appointed, and given the time to do his job, and
> do it right. I must say that Mandrake made an
> excellent move when they appointed Vincent Danen
> the security guy. IMHO, Mandrake has gone from
> last to first in security response. Can they do
> the same for distribution/mirroring?
>
> This person needs to be in constant contact with
> all the mirrors, notified of planned outages at
> the mirrors, and needs to be in charge of keeping
> the mirror list up to date.
>
> A change also needs to be made to this list, to
> reflect a lot more information. For example, Red
> Hat's mirror list shows which mirrors provide
> which architectures. What's even better is a
> list that shows both which architectures are
> available, as well as which mirrors offer ISO
> images. Something like this (imagine it's in
> HTML)(Warning, bad ASCII art follows):
>
> Would I volunteer for this job? Not now, I'm
> sorry. I can't afford to sacrifice some of my
> remaining free time for something I get no
> monetary reimbursement for (even though knowing I
> helped out my favorite Linux distro would be
> enough reimbursement for me, my fiancee would
> kill me). Would I do this job part/full time and
> get paid for it? Sure, my fiancee won't kill me
> for giving her more spending money. Drop me a
> line.
I'd be more than willing to work on these things. The mirroring issues are
annoying as is to me. I sent an email with a suggestion to someone Vincent
recommended a while back and I never heard back. So I don't know what to tell
you.
For those of us on the other side of the atlantic there are no decent mirrors
over here. rpmfind seems to always be lagging behind. Which leaves us with
the european mirrors.
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