On Apr 1, 2013, at 3:54 AM, "Marcus (OOo)" <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote:

> Am 04/01/2013 03:20 AM, schrieb Rob Weir:
>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Marcus (OOo)<marcus.m...@wtnet.de>  wrote:
>>> Many months ago we agreed to create a new file structure for the mirrors to
>>> get rid of some historical grown limitations and complexity.
>>>
>>> I want to continue this and come to a final result.
>>>
>>> Current situation:
>>>
>>> - Mostly it's about to differenciate the files between "stable" for en-US
>>> files only and "localized" for all other languages.
>>>
>>> - Due to Apache policy the source files must not be distributed by mirrors,
>>> but have to be offered from Apache servers only.
>>
>> Is that actually true?  I thought it was fine to distribute our source
>> tarballs via the Apache mirror network.  The things that must be
>> distributed from the Apache dist server are the hash files and
>> detached signature files.
>
> You are right, I've checked this with the current downloads. So, it can stay 
> as it is now.
>
>>> New naming structure:
>>>
>>> - A new structure could look like the following:
>>>
>>> <path_on_the_mirror>/<release_version>/<file_type>/<language_code>/<install_file>
>>>
>>> Some examples to make it more realistic:
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/
>>> 4.0.0/binaries/en-US/Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.0_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/
>>> 4.0.0/binaries/it/Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.0_Win_x86_langpack_it.exe
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/
>>> 4.0.0/binaries/SDK/Apache_OpenOffice-SDK_4.0.0_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe
>>
>> This does not match your pattern.  There is no<language-code>
>> component to the path?
>
> It is, have a look for the "en-US" "it", and "SDK" pattern.
>

Maybe a typo in you example?  I see "SDK" (and "binaries") but no
language. Surely pretending that "SDK" is a language would only
complicate the logic.


>>> http://www.apache.org/dyn/aoo-closer.cgi/ooo/
>>> 4.0.0/source/aoo-4.0.0-src.tar.bz2
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> This is fine.  Could even do without the<file_type>  directory.  If
>> you do then directly to the<language_code>  directory, everything is
>> clear by the file name.
>
> Sure, but someone (or more people) wanted to have another sub-dir. But I 
> don't remember who it was.
>
> > Otherwise we end up with many directories
>> with only a very small number of files in them.
>
> I don't think so. When you look at the following I wouldn't call it a small 
> number of files:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/localized/ar/3.4.1/
>
> However, I don't care. Of course we could elleminate "<file_type>" from the 
> pattern when we could come to an agreeement.
>
> Marcus
>
>
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