Hello there,
OpenOffice.org is a fairly large project, available for many
combinations of languages and platforms. Thus, we currently offer a
broad range of files on our mirroring network that are quite large in
size. Some of them are requested quite often, whereas some of them are
old, legacy and only downloaded once in a while. Therefore, we need to
establish a policy on how to mirror the files in an economical way.
Currently, we distribute all of them in two mirror modules: the 'main'
module and the 'extended' module, whereas the 'main' module is divided
into several categories. The main module is mirrored by quite a few
mirrors, whereas the 'extended' module - due to its size - is being
mirrored only by a dozen one. This hierarchy shouldn't be changed.
However, in order to shrink the size of all modules, we want to
establish a new module called 'archive', where we can store the
mentioned old, legacy and rarely downloaded files and move them out of
'main' or 'extended'. The 'archive' module is only mirrored on two or
three mirrors to avoid too much traffic consumption.
This will help us to minimize current problems, where we couldn't
release new versions due to the mirrors being full.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SOME DOWNLOAD PAGES NEED TO BE CHANGED, ESPECIALLY THOSE LINKING TO THE
LEGACY 1.1.5 BUILD.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I ask all page maintainers to check if their links still work in a few
days when we're done with the migration to archive.
The full details of the new system can be found at
http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/archive.html
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but it was a necessary step
to avoid problems. We didn't have much time in advance to prepare, so we
weren't able to inform you beforehand.
For all questions, feel free to ask me.
Thanks to Stefan and Joost for their help in setting up, and thanks to
all mirrors providing archive space!
Florian
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