On Saturday, 9 May 2015 22:28:17 UTC+1, leif wrote: > > Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > How about keeping these downloads on github? > > Perhaps in addition. > > > Perhaps adding its storage as an extra mirror - the one that would be > > quite fast for many people, and not as much at mercy of mirror > > maintainers. > > Yeah, rather at the mercy of a single commercial company. >
presently Sage releases are being done on Google Computiing Engine server paid by Sagemath Inc., with borrowed money. It cost too much to have a Sage mirror on this server, AFAIK, as bandwidth is not cheap. My suggestion looks a better kind of setup in this sense. Note that there is not a single Sage mirror in USA at the moment - github would fill this niche nicely. I don't understand why a resource like github should be ignored in favour of ad hoc solutions. I was able to get a Sage mirror running in Singapore, but it's due to a goodwill of one very busy sysadmin, and it seems to be over by now. I tried to get a Sage mirror running in Oxford, but to no avail. As we start getting funds from https://github.com/sagemath/grant-europe (we're now at the stage of finishing grant formalities, so it should come, unless something very unexpected happens) I can try again, arguing that it's important for the project. > (And probably sooner or later of ISPs, in not violating network > neutrality, who knows... ;-) ) > > > -leif > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
