On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 03:10:02PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: > http://dl.sv.gnu.org/releases/00_MIRRORS.html accordingly. > > Can that file (/vservers/download/srv/download/00_MIRRORS.html I guess) > simply be edited in place? E.g., I'd like to add a pointer to the > www.gnu.org page "if you want to be added to the list", etc. My > apologies if I'm already supposed to know the answer to this, but I just > don't.
Yes, it's that file. I edit it in place, it's not version-controled. > Are the maintainers contacts confidential information? > > Yes, I think it would be best for us to treat them as such. > > If the information is deemed private we need to setup some private > place to store it in. > > What we've done for the regular ftp mirrors is use > a file fencepost:/gd/gnuorg/web/FTP.contacts. > So we could have a parallel file NONGNU.contacts, say. A fencepost file sounds good, except that not all Savannah hackers have a fencepost account. Unless that's a problem, it may be better to put it at Savannah itself. For example, our contact information is essentially maintained in our ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. > 'rsync -a' is not enough, mirrors need to use 'rsync -a --delete' at > least, and I'd prefer 'rsync -aHS --delete-excluded'. > > I'll tell the Greeks and update the mirror.html web page. Also, it > seems the bigsearcher mirror is not being updated at all, so I'll write > them too. Good :) Next step is writing this automagic Geo::IP multiplexer we talked about a couple months ago. -- Sylvain
