Re: Apache Mirrors

[robert burrell donkin]

i've moved a few products over to the mirrors in jakartaland. for products 
which are part of a mirror top level project (eg. xml.apache.org), i think 
things are much easier that is suggested in the links below. it means 
setting up the common directory layout (maybe it'd be easier for someone 
to do this at one sitting for all xml sub-projects), setting up a code 
signing key, downloading and signing the releases to be mirrored then 
uploading into the new directory structure.

i think that infrastructure would prefer just the most recent releases 
moved to the mirrors with everything else moving (eventually) to archives 
but it might be best to check with them to confirm that this is right.

i've been putting together a simple check list page to help people in 
jakartaland make the move so maybe i'll post an url here when it's done.

- robert

On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 11:20 AM, Berin Lautenbach wrote:

Peoples,

I think many are aware that the ASF has put in place a system that allows 
other sites to mirror the files available for download from the various 
Apache web sites.  This is all goodness - it allows people to download 
from closer to home at the same time as reducing the bandwidth 
utilisation for the main Apache site.

The XML project is lagging a bit behind other projects in moving to this 
new scheme, and it's time we bit the bullet and made this happen.  The 
aim is to try to do this within 2 months - i.e. by the end of October.

Of the various XML sub-projects, fop, forrest and security have already 
moved over to the new system.  That leaves :

Xerces-J
Xerces-C
Xerces-P
Xalan-J
Xalan-C
Batik
Commons
Xindice
AxKit
It would be great if the PMC members could look at what needs to be done 
to make this happen for their sub-projects.  If people could report back 
to General as to who is going to take on what and then how they are going,
 I will keep a status list.

Having done this for the xml-security sub-project, I can vouch for this 
not being a huge piece of work :>.

Instructions for what needs to be done can be found at :

http://cvs.apache.org/~bodewig/mirror.html

and

http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html

We probably also want to put together a general download page for the 
project - but one thing at a time :>.

Cheers,
        Berin
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