On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Andrew Kenna wrote:
> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 08:34:35 +1000
> From: Andrew Kenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Problems updating via rsync
> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> The tier-1 mirror idea sounds like a good one jason as it would relieve the
> load on the main site at apache and we would i'm sure be able to simplify
> things.
> I do think that the ftp site needs to be just a pure distribution point only
> with no html files. which would simply mean that to mirror the distribution
> files only for a particular project you would reference
> ftp-dist.apache.org:projectname for the actual binaries files
> www-dist.apache.org:projectname for the actual web pages for that project
I think this is asking for trouble.
-- The recent jakarta/ stuff is now 'only distributon'.
On it's completely useless without further guidance.
The filenames simply don't tell enough.
-- Having two (ftp/www) versions requires organisation,
and that is the main thing lacking.
I would be in favour of a basic framework of directories
with distributable stuff, where each directory contains
a html page telling what is what.
Maybe, maybe you could do something like
lynx -dump index.html > README
out of courtesy to the ftp-only users.
The first priority, however, should be the web sites.
> Andrew
My two cents.
regards.
Henk Penning
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