[NB followups set to debian-cd only] I guess many will have skipped the sub-thread of "Are we losing users to Gentoo?" about CD images, over on -devel and -www.
Basically, the current situation WRT CD image mirrors is getting, er, "irritating": Far too few of them carry the 3.0r0 images, many only have the jigdo files or 2.2r6. Originally, the plan for 3.0r0 was that ISOs would be made available via jigdo and that mirrors would update using the "jigdo-mirror" script which I wrote especially for that purpose. (And I mailed all mirror admins with the details.) Later, the images would also become available "normally" via rsync (AFAIR), but somehow that never happened. But few admins seem to have set up jigdo-mirror... I think for most of them, mirroring something is not an option if it can't be fetched with http, ftp or rsync. <shrug> So let's do it their way: I propose that we offer rsync (and maybe HTTP?) access to the images again starting with 3.0r1. raff has enough disc space, so the size should not be a problem. Of course, we'd better implement some kind of access control. And what about cdimage.d.o? - it would be nice to have another "primary" mirror in Europe to distribute the load. Comments? Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
