On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Olivier Thauvin
<nanardon@nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
Hi all,
As soon we'll have a kind of infrastructure and making the distribution
will start we'll need a way to distribute it.
So to be ready as soon as possible I start here a discuss about the
mirror management and will make some suggestion.
Nothing is done at time, so feel free to comment.
1) The mirror content:
- distribution
- devel one
- stable one
is there enything else (patch, our own applications as source,
documentation as flat html file) ?
We also have to define the rules making a mirror valid and avoid
differences between them.
2) The logical mirroring process
The proposal is to have a safe and access limited rsync server
containing the tree (rsync.mageia.org ?). Mirroring from this one can
only be done after being authorized by our team.
At second level, rsync'd from this safe server some referenced servers
open to the world for all other mirrors (distrib-coffee could be one of
them). The manager of these servers must be reachable, then we need to
know them.
So at the end all others mirrors from where everyone can fetch the
distribution, and anyone could freely setup a such mirror.
3) Listing mirrors
I do think registering mirrors could be done by anyone, once the mirror
is availlable.
So i suggest to have a web application to allow mirror registration.
After submission a post process could verify the URL validity and if
everything is ok the new mirror would appear in official list.
The main point of this idea is to not force mirrors admin to registering
on any bug tracker or anything else.
The second goal of such application is of course to monitor them and
alert when they are down or out of sync.
Feel free to comment. I'll be carrefully reading this thread !
Regards.
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Olivier Thauvin
CNRS - LATMOS
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