On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:45 AM, sankarshan<[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Thanks to Susmit for his great efforts, I'll love to know where can I read more about "mirror-on-a-box" ? >> 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. > + 1 Lot of QA work can also be done within Virtual Machine guests but still fast download resourcing is a critical requirement. So far it looks that there aren't any mirrors hosting development bits for India as of now. (http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/12-Alpha/) ~kevin _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
