On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Kevin Verma<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll appreciate if someone can take up a project to make > new-mirror-setups more seamless for new takers of private/public > mirrors. Perhaps few interactive scripts, cron configurations, sync > scripts in a RPM, or if there is one existing already then I'll love > to know about it. Susmit did demonstrate a "mirror-on-a-box" concept around a year back with rudimentary scripts setting up a mirror. A larger requirement for the mirror is the base set of bits, beyond that it is rsync, mirror-manager and, talking with the Infrastructure folks. The important requirement is having the will to maintain it for atomicity. > Hopefully that work will also help to convince ISPs in country to > setup mirrors (or at-least Intelligent Mirror) within their network > for their Internet services users. At the Fedora 12 test day I > realized that to increase userbase and QA contribution from within > India, its first of all important for us to increase the number of > mirrors. To increase the QA contribution, we need more people doing QA on existing release, honing their skills and, moving to rawhide. It is a fact of life that contributing to QA on rawhide requires at least another machine (to be able to have a single sane and, a single broken box) - most students will not be having that. On the other hand, they do have computers in their labs and, figuring out a way to have QA jam sessions would help them appreciate and, learn about the OS bits better. I have always had hopes that the college installation fests would progress to some QA activities too - sadly, all of them seem to be very content doing nothing more than installations. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
