[Mageia-dev] mirror policy & howto updates

Tue Mar 1 14:28:21 CET 2011

* Romain d'Alverny (rdalverny at gmail.com) wrote:
+> Hi there,
+> 
+> for info/review/improv, I updated the mirrors policy page
+> (http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mirrors_policy ) to have:
+>  * better readability
+>  * more details on sections (distrib, iso, software, people, possible
+> archive one)
+>  * the mirror howto at the end (may be moved to a separate "how to
+> become a mirror?" page I guess).
+> 
+> Some discussions occurred with a mirror admin that brought up some
+> bits left to improve:
+
+>  * have a clear expiration policy (hard to define before having the
+> support policy setup)
+
+This cycle cannot be less the support time of a distrib, but the distro
+can be archived later. At time I don't know what the support policy...
+hard to said much, indeed.
+
+>  * have an archive section in the mirror
+
+What is this for ?
+
+>  * keep on explaining the "tainted" section outcomes, so mirror admins
+> have better facts & info to decide
+
+>  * provide clear rsync modules to help admins quickly pick up what
+> fits best for them.
+
+Since all mirrors sync their tree from tier1, and we don't have the hand
+on tier1 servers, we cannot provides rsync share as we want...
+
+> 
+> Romain
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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