On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Joshua Slive wrote:
> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:46:15 -0400
> From: Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Mirror created
>
> Aaron Bannert wrote:
> > We really need to do something about this. I stopped running the
> > jakarta and xml site mirrors to my machine because the nightly
> > deltas were so huge. It would be great if we could get the
> > dist directories to only be official project distributions,
> > so we could mirror just that instead of things like automated
> > gump builds.
>
> Yes, certainly. When I have discussed this with the jakarta people, we
> have been clear that nightly builds cannot go out to the mirrors. The
> other question, however, is whether all the old release (or pre-release)
> builds should stay up on the mirrors (as they are for httpd) or if we
> should prune down to just current releases. I have mixed feelings about
> that.
Hi,
this was discussed here a year ago; is there an archive of this list ?
I would strongly favor that the projects split their archive in
-- hist/ historical stuff
-- dist/ current stuff
-- devel/ development stuff
Mirrors should only carry the 'dist' stuff.
-- For mirror users, all the 'hist' and 'devel' stuff is very confusing.
-- Those interested in 'hist' and 'devel' would go to the source anyway,
and not trust any mirror to "have everything, always".
I have no idea how feasible/realistic this is, but I think
this is what the mirrors and average users want.
Note that I don't think diskspace or bandwidth are the problem,
although a year ago it took more than 2 days continuous mirroring
to get to 75% sync with the jakarta archive (due to performance
problems on the jakarta end).
> Joshua.
regards.
Henk Penning
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