[Mageia-discuss] Mirror

Wed Mar 9 14:31:44 CET 2011

2011/3/9 Juergen Harms <Juergen.Harms at unige.ch>:
+
+> Talking to people at Switch brought up some facts which Mandriva should be
+> aware of:
+>  - There is a heritage of bad experience that has been made with Mandriva.
+>  - It is not the first time that I hear the argument Mageia = Mandriva =
+> forgetit.
+>  - Mageia happens at present to be perceived as "just another one of those
+> distros that appear and disappear to oblivion" (maybe with a component of
+> unfriendlyness towards Linux).
+
+Yes, I guess this is based on personal opinions and you can't really fight that.
+
+> By the way, at my university there was a similar experience: Mandriva was
+> part of the officially supported infrastructure (mirror, consultancy), with
+> fees paid to Mandriva - that broke in dysharmony due to bad administrative
+> response from Mandriva, leaving quite some ill feeling. Sorry if I wade
+> through these negative arguments, but these beyond-the-enthusiast-user
+> spotlights count.
+
+You can't compare this setup with anything related to Mageia. Mageia
+does not ask to become a consultant to Switch and Mageia does not ask
+for any fees. Furthermore "bad administrative response" is one of
+those things about Mandriva that Mageia will avoid by all means. It
+was caused by lack of manpower of a commercial company, something
+which is totally different at Mageia.
+
+> I think that, when the stable release approaches, a small campaign to
+> rectify these prejudices would be an excellent thing.
+
+Time to rectify those prejudices is now, at any time at any place (not
+only with mirror providers but in general).
+
+> But I think that on the long-run there are lessons to be learned from the
+> discussion with Switch - mirrors for a stable Mageia should be preferably
+> hosted at professionally run mirror sites (who make the kind of
+> consideration I quoted above), university solutions should come as
+> additional icing. In case of a second round of discussion on how to organise
+> Mageia mirrors, it might be a good idea to have that discussion with some
+> participation from the mirror sites.
+
+I can not confirm nor agree to this. As Oliver wrote, 2 universities
+already set up a mirror for Mageia and when looking around worldwide
+who is hosting a Mandriva mirror you will notice that educational
+institutions (aka universities) are the majority.
+
+Using MirrorBrain may or may not be an improvement (I can't judge
+this) but IMHO it should not be a criterium to mirror or not.
+
+Of course, if Switch wants it that way then it is up to the Mageia
+sysadmins to decide what is the better way - implementing MirrorBrain
+to please Switch or not implement it and forget about Switch - not
+speaking about other advantages/disadvantages which may come with
+Mirrorbrain.
+
+-- 
+wobo
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