On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Roberto Galoppini <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we have been testing AOO downloads for about 10 days, below our findings:
>
> - downloads per day ( http://goo.gl/jKbnC )
> - info about geographies (
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/map )
> - operating systems (
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/os )
>
> We spent the first days to tune our delivery system and facilities to
> serve AOO downloads, We actually started by putting a CDN in place
> that could grab files from our master mirror as its origin server, and
> we learned we needed to pre-cache files to speed up downloads. Once
> CDN was working properly, and we got those test results we updated the
> test to servey we eventually switched to serve up these files from our
> normal mirror network. As of today we updated also the download page,
> now reporting the information formerly delivered by the download page
> at Apache (e.g. http://goo.gl/WXSuk).
>
>
> Our understanding based on the above data, and the expectations set by
> the community prior to the test is that we are not serving all
> downloads, (e.g. downloads.openoffice.org/es, automatic updater
> downloads, etc) and it's unclear how many downloads are actually
> served by different pages. We should probably try to route all
> download traffic, so that we can provide more accurate download stats.
>

Two other examples of pages that are hard coded to MirrorBrain:

http://www.openoffice.org/da/

http://www.openoffice.org/no/


> We have tested our expanded mirror network, and burst CDN capacity,
> and are confident that we are well positioned to serve much heavier
> download traffic than is expected at release time. Since the traffic
> will be high also be high for updates, we might take additional
> precautions and continue to route auto updater downloads through
> MirrorBrain, and use Apache and sourceforge.net mirrors as a backup.
>
> To the extent that sourceforge.net is the primary recomended download
> source for AOO downloads we feel it is important to keep providing the
> PPMC with accurate stats info (see above), also via API, as mentioned
> before (see http://goo.gl/tTgZ6). If there is more download
> statistical data that the PPMC would like to see, please let us know
> so that we can try to meet those needs.
>
> Roberto
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Roberto Galoppini <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Please note:  https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119194
>>> >
>>> > I'm about to apply this patch. It will cause download requests to go
>>> > to the SourceForge mirrors instead of MirrorBrain.  We want to confirm
>>> > that things are set up properly on the SF side, before we get the
>>> > deluge of downloads for AOO 3.4.
>>> >
>>> > So please respond to this post with any oddities you see or hear about
>>> > with users downloading OOo 3.3 releases over the next few days.
>>> >
>>>
>>> This is live now (in production).
>>>
>>> Two issues that I see so far:
>>>
>>> 1) The MirrorBrain downloads were redirecting the user to
>>> http://www.openoffice.org/download/contribute.html, along with URL
>>> parameters that indicated the file that was downloaded.
>>>
>>> This is very useful for a couple of reasons:
>>>
>>> A) This is our best chance to make the user aware of the support
>>> options, the mailing lists, the install instructions, etc.  It is our
>>> opportunity to "hook" them into getting more involved with the
>>> community and the ecosystem.
>>>
>>> B) The URL parameters give us information on what platforms and
>>> languages are downloaded most often.  For example:
>>>
>>> http://www.openoffice.org/download/contribute.html?download-mirrorbrain&files/stable/3.3.0/OOo_3.3.0_Win_86_install-wJRE_en-US.exe
>>>
>>> The current SourceForge download path does not do these things.  I
>>> think this is important and needs to be addressed.  Maybe something
>>> could be done by forming similar URL's and showing that page in an
>>> IFrame from the SF download page?
>>
>>
>> We can put links to AOO contribution resources next to the ad unit. We are 
>> also open to help to find new developers through our media channels, and we 
>> have an 'help wanted' feature that can be used for this scope.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2) I have not done any timings, but the download speed seems slower,
>>> at least the time taken until the download is actually started.
>>
>>
>> Think this was on Friday when we were still tuning our mirrors and caching 
>> files.
>>
>> Roberto
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>>
>>> > -Rob
>>
>>
>>
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