Leo Simons wrote:
You know, there is this large and interesting community of maintainers of mirrors of open source software. A fair share of them are your typical beard stroking [1] uber experienced unix [2] system administrators who maintain a local mirror for their company / campus / ISP mostly so that their local users are served from their local infrastructure, saving on the bandwidth bill of their uplink and keeping their users happy. The art of software mirroring is mostly in making friends with these folks and then staying friendly to them and keeping them happy and well-fed and rsynced. Putting things in the "cloud" is probably a pretty decent way to piss these people off :-D Incidentally, apache has decent mirroring mostly because it has its own share of beard stroking [1] uber experienced unix [2] administrators. They are typically referred to as the infra team, and they must also be kept happy and well-fed at all times! [3]
The OOo community has a very large mirror base already. Even in the last month it has added more mirrors. Has this been looked at?
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