Hi,
AFAIK the current projects at Apache doesn't have high download numbers
compared with OOo. So, a download request can point directly to a mirror
or a mirror list is shown and the users have to choose themselves from
where to get the software best.
For OpenOffice this doesn't work. With download numbers up to 500,000
per month we need a more flexible and scaleable solution. I don't know
if or how fast we could reach these numbers again. But even with the
half it would be a lot to handle. Furthermore we have to present a) a
simple way to download for the end-users that is b) *not* stressing a
few/specific mirror servers to their maximum.
The current solution you can see on "download.openoffice.org" works very
well. However, the infrastructure behind this is still hosted on Oracle
server. So, we have to transfer this, too.
I don't speak about domain, website and its content. That's already on
the list for migration. It's about the download redirector behind the
colored webpages (http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/). Here
MirrorBrain is used (www.mirrorbrain.org) to recognize from where the
download request comes and which mirror server to choose that is near to
the user.
I would like to continue this service and IMHO it shouldn't be that
difficult when I look at the requirements:
http://www.mirrorbrain.org/requirements/
When running in a VM it should be a small part within the OpenOffice
project to maintain. In the past at Oracle we just had to
add/modify/delete mirrors and very few times to restart the VM in case
of problems.
Marcus
