Hi!
I was just thinking about mirroring the mod_perl docs here in Austria (in fact, I was thinking about asking our SysAdmin if we have some bandwith left ..), but:
* do we want official or unofficial mirrors
* if yes, we should add a place somewhere to link to them. I guess the best place would be to add a new top-level docset called "Mirrors" (somewhere near the end of the menu) and list all mirrors there (and maybe add some info/links to info on how to set up a mirror)
If we want mirrors, I'll add those items ...
We have discussed this issue before. My opinion is that we don't want any official mirrors. The reason: Search the web for the mod_perl guide. You will find dozens of "mirrors" which are very very outdated and include erroneous information. Making official mirrors, meaning that you have to monitor those mirrors and make sure that they get updated.
There are also technical problems with mirrors, e.g. the search won't work, certain hidden objects aren't linked (e.g. 404.html), etc.
And I'm not aware of a bandwidth problem at apache.org. The only drawback of not having the mirrors is a slower usage experience for those behind slow links.
If we do maintain a list of mirrors and add a warning so users verify that they read the latest copy (how?) they will still go back to the master site. The guide used to have a release every so often, so it was easy to update, the new model supports release often approach, so it really has to be a mirror that monitors changes very often.
So I say that for the moment if you want to have a mirror, go for it, but for now there is only one source of docs people should know about and that's perl.apache.org. After we release the site, if there will be people whom we can trust that they will keep their mirrors in sync we may do something about it.
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