On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Infra has started a discussion with our mirror > operators about the technical impact of carrying > the 3.4 release on Apache mirrors. The early > feedback is better than expected tbh, but there > will still be a certain percentage of Apache mirror > operators who will either need an opt-out or to drop > their mirror. > > We'd appreciate it in any case for this PPMC to > reach out to existing ooo mirror operators and > ask them to sign up for Apache mirroring if they > haven't already done so. That would help us fill > in any mirror lossage we have as a result of > carrying AOO releases. > > Please direct them to > > > http://www.apache.org/info/how-to-mirror.html > > with the amended information that we'd like to > require mirror operators to provide 80-100GB of > disk and perhaps a 50-100Mbps link. In any case > the download traffic for non-AOO releases is > negligible and your mirror operators already > should have their own data about bandwidth > requirements. It might be the time to suggest that they could regain storage space by ceasing to carry older versions of OpenOffice.org - say earlier than v3.00. -- Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]>
