hi, sajolida wrote (19 Jan 2015 18:49:28 GMT) : > We already considered using mirrorbrain and it is already mentioned on > our blueprint for a new mirror infrastructure:
> https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/HTTP_mirror_pool I've added more info about mirrorbrain there. In a nutshell, there are 3rd-party Debian packages available, and it requires PostgreSQL. I'd rather avoid having to maintain it in Debian, and asking [email protected] to deploy and maintain such a stack. > Our current plan is to write a very minimal custom PHP script. > The downside of mirrorbrain here is that it's quite big (probably too > big for what we want to do) and it's not in Debian, not really > authenticated, audited, etc. > Still, if we want to further improve our custom script in the future, > for example to include load balancing or geolocation, we might end up > reinventing partly the wheel when more complex tools such as mirrorbrain > already exist. Yep. We'll need to carefully evaluate when it's time to switch to something like mirrorbrain, whenever we have to add features to our own custom script. Cheers, -- intrigeri _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
