Hi Andrea, On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:23:27PM +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Florian Effenberger wrote: > > after a long time of silence, I finally have some good news to share: > > Thanks to the help of Stefan, Gerd and Dirk, we now have a test instance > > for MirrorBrain running which will be used to test and play with the > > system. > > Thanks to everybody involved! > > A couple of questions (I hope the answer is yes to both!): > - will MirrorBrain provide better, live, easily accessible download > statistics for all localized versions?
Not directly, because MirrorBrain is not about collecting statistics in the first place, being a download redirector, and not a log analyzer. Log analysis is an orthogonal task. And while it makes sense to count downloads from a central place (the feasibility of which was a design goal in MirrorBrain), MirrorBrain doesn't have a built-in log analysis feature, and in particular no such feature specialized for OOo's file tree and its setup regarding localized versions. Such a feature could not be hard-wired, at least not in a way that would prevent other organizations from deploying MirrorBrain as well. MB aims to be modular and generically useful, and not tied to one particular site. That said, if the question is: will we be able to implement good, live, detailed logging in _conjunction_ with MirrorBrain? Then the answer is a clear yes. I have written up a concept for collecting downlaod statistics here: http://mirrorbrain.org/download-statistics/ It should fit your expectations pretty well. What do you think about it? The implementation would seem generic enough for being used by others, too. Your comments would be appreciated! > - will MirrorBrain smartly select mirrors on a geographical basis? Yes. Peter
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