Dave Barton wrote:
I do not understand, or find any reasonable explanation, why our download page does not redirect to the ASF's own mirror network: https://www.apache.org/mirrors/ where our binaries are already being served by 200+ mirrors around the world.
Leaving all the SourceForge discussion aside, one reasonable explanation for this last question is that the vast majority of Apache mirrors do NOT mirror OpenOffice: those who do are a minority. I've just tried with the Italian mirrors and only 2 out of 7 offer OpenOffice. Load balancers are broken by this incomplete mirroring: even if you try to download the source package http://openoffice.apache.org/downloads.html you often have to try multiple mirrors before getting one that works.
In short, the ASF mirror network is not nearly as complete and reliable as it seems at a first look (besides having other issues such as lack of stats and lack of unique download URLs).
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