[Rd] French Toulouse CRAN mirror always down
Hi! One of the three French CRAN mirrors, cran.cict.fr (Toulouse) seems to be down most of the time, and at least really not reliable. It has currently been down for 28 days (!) [1], and I know that over two years I've rarely been able to use it (no response, slow, hangs...). I'm sure the maintainers of this mirror mean well, but the result is really negative for French R users. This week I observed one user that failed to install a package because she selected that mirror and it was not available. Such a minor detail can give a very poor impression to beginners. I suggest that either the maintainers of this mirror explain why it does not work and provide solutions to improve the situation, or it should be removed from the list until it works reliably. Not as a punishment of course, but for practical considerations. At the very least this mirror should be moved down the list: at the moment it's the first of the three French mirrors, while the two others work very well. If the mirrors were sorted by the alphabetical order of their full names, it would be the last one, and it would be bite French users less often, while still acting as a fallback solution. Thanks for taking care of this list 1: http://cran.r-project.org/mirmon_report.html#fr __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] French Toulouse CRAN mirror always down
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:37:39 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat (MB) wrote: Hi! One of the three French CRAN mirrors, cran.cict.fr (Toulouse) seems to be down most of the time, and at least really not reliable. It has currently been down for 28 days (!) [1], and I know that over two years I've rarely been able to use it (no response, slow, hangs...). I'm sure the maintainers of this mirror mean well, but the result is really negative for French R users. This week I observed one user that failed to install a package because she selected that mirror and it was not available. Such a minor detail can give a very poor impression to beginners. I suggest that either the maintainers of this mirror explain why it does not work and provide solutions to improve the situation, or it should be removed from the list until it works reliably. Not as a punishment of course, but for practical considerations. At the very least this mirror should be moved down the list: at the moment it's the first of the three French mirrors, while the two others work very well. If the mirrors were sorted by the alphabetical order of their full names, it would be the last one, and it would be bite French users less often, while still acting as a fallback solution. It has already been removed a couple of days ago, have a look e.g. at http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html will need some time to propagate to all places. Best, Fritz __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] French Toulouse CRAN mirror always down
Le vendredi 28 septembre 2012 à 10:14 +0200, friedrich.lei...@r-project.org a écrit : On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:37:39 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat (MB) wrote: Hi! One of the three French CRAN mirrors, cran.cict.fr (Toulouse) seems to be down most of the time, and at least really not reliable. It has currently been down for 28 days (!) [1], and I know that over two years I've rarely been able to use it (no response, slow, hangs...). I'm sure the maintainers of this mirror mean well, but the result is really negative for French R users. This week I observed one user that failed to install a package because she selected that mirror and it was not available. Such a minor detail can give a very poor impression to beginners. I suggest that either the maintainers of this mirror explain why it does not work and provide solutions to improve the situation, or it should be removed from the list until it works reliably. Not as a punishment of course, but for practical considerations. At the very least this mirror should be moved down the list: at the moment it's the first of the three French mirrors, while the two others work very well. If the mirrors were sorted by the alphabetical order of their full names, it would be the last one, and it would be bite French users less often, while still acting as a fallback solution. It has already been removed a couple of days ago, have a look e.g. at http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html will need some time to propagate to all places. I had noticed it was not in the list, but I thought that was done automatically when a mirror was not responding. What a coincidence it was removed right before I write this message! ;-) Glad to know this problem will no longer exist in the future. Regards __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
