Not really sure whether it would be worth it, but something like the level of detail that goes in to the form when submitting a new CPAN mirror would be handy. You have to specify the updating frequency, mirror longitude and latitude. They've got a good system for judging the latency to the mirror and it's freshness too.
Chris On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:35:47PM +1100, Andrew Kenna wrote: > Can I please have everyone's feedback on the automated mirroring system > I am working on putting into place. > > The first stage is at http://www.apache.org/mirrors/submit.html... This > allows mirrors to fill in a web based form, and it emails the results > off to the mirror maintainers in a format that can be put straight into > the online listing of official mirrors. > > If there is anything else you would like to see on there let me know. > > Andrew
