Rob Weir wrote:
One approach might be to have the landing page be the NL home page, e.g., http://de.openoffice.org. These already exist, and either have the download links on that page, or have text that explains how to download.
Sure, this makes a lot of sense. Testing with the Italian version is reasonable because it's approximately 10% of traffic, so a perfect sample; the only issue I see is that 80%-90% of the downloads of the Italian version come from Italy, so this wouldn't be a test for the global mirror network.
One other question: does this take care of OOo 3.2 upgrades as well?
No, every version uses a separate hostname: update36.services.openoffice.org will only be accessed by version 3.3.
Do we think there are many out there?
Enough to crash the openoffice.org web server: if I recall correctly, we had big troubles when all updateXY hostnames were redirected to openoffice.org (and the reason was determined to be very old, maybe even 2.x, versions, sending POST requests in an uncontrolled way). But as Oliver wrote we can progressively extend to 3.2 and possibly to earlier releases too.
Regards, Andrea.
