Hi! On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 05:26:12PM +0800, Stas Bekman wrote: > 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 You will find dozens of "mirrors" which are very very outdated and 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.
see below. > 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. ..and causing traffic over half of the world. But maybe that's a good thing, or else even more backbone operators will go bankrupt (KPNQuest...) :-) > 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. I thought that the current site is very well suited for mirroring, as the building can be totally automated (as it is on perl.apache.org): % cvs update % bin/build If SWISH is installed on the mirror, searching should be possible to... I wasn't thinking of a simple mirror of the HTML tree (dst_html) ... > 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. OK. My main concern was that I use the docs locally (faster), but the search won't work. So I thought I just get the search running on my box, and than, that maybe other people would like to use my local copy, and so on ... OK, I could use grep for finding stuff, but now that we have such a wonderfull search engine (Thanks, Bill!), it just seems awkward .. -- #!/usr/bin/perl http://domm.zsi.at for(ref(bless[],just'another'perl'hacker)){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/} --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
