How do I go about adding a mirror or suggesting one?

The script you use picks the nearest mirror geographically, yes? That's
what I could get from looking at the source code.

The ones I get however, are 

http://www.apache.org/dist/avalon,http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://ls
d.student.utwente.nl/repository 

in that order, almost all the time. I looked at the list of mirrors 
and found one that is very much closer:

    ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/www/servers/apache/dist/

(I get about 20kB/s from the apache.org mirror, sunet delivers
average 300kB/s, so I much prefer it.)

The problem is, I think, that the mirror is FTP. However - sunet has
an http interface:

    http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/www/servers/apache/dist/

works just as well.

So, I'm about to contact the admins at sunet to have the mirror listed
with HTTP access as well - basically "hey guys, can I suggest to
Apache that they use http to access the mirror?".

Who do I talk to here? Infrastructure? Leo Simons, are you on that
team - I think you were?

/LS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Berin Loritsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: den 2 september 2003 21:07
> To: Avalon Developers List
> Subject: Re: distributions - bandwidth hog
> 
> 
> Berin Loritsch wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hmm.  Must be the Maven builds.  Any way to derive the current best 
> > mirror for Maven?
> > 
> 
> I through together some rudimentary support to generate the 
> preferred download link on the server.  If you connect to:
> 
http://avalon.apache.org/maven.cgi

You will see the contents of a generated properties file.  The problem
is getting Maven to use that file.  The <property/> element only
supports resource, file, and environment which means that we can only
get it locally from our box.  We might be able to do a remote copy or
something like that, but no guarantees.

Any ideas?

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  deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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