On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Saturday, 9 May 2015 22:28:17 UTC+1, leif wrote: >> >> Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> > How about keeping these downloads on github? >> >> Perhaps in addition. >> >> > Perhaps adding its storage as an extra mirror - the one that would be >> > quite fast for many people, and not as much at mercy of mirror >> > maintainers. >> >> Yeah, rather at the mercy of a single commercial company. > > > presently Sage releases are being done on Google Computiing Engine server > paid by Sagemath Inc., with borrowed money. It cost too much to have a Sage
Minor change: the plan if nothing else works would be to use the mentor part of the GSoC money (which will be ~$2K) to support this hosting. > mirror > on this server, AFAIK, as bandwidth is not cheap. My suggestion looks a > better kind > of setup in this sense. Note that there is not a single Sage mirror in USA > at the moment - github would > fill this niche nicely. > > I don't understand why a resource like github should be ignored in favour of > ad hoc solutions. +1 to github hosting if it is possible. > > I was able to get a Sage mirror running in Singapore, but it's due to a > goodwill of > one very busy sysadmin, and it seems to be over by now. > I tried to get a Sage mirror running in Oxford, but to no avail. > As we start getting funds from https://github.com/sagemath/grant-europe > (we're now at the stage of finishing grant formalities, so it should come, > unless something > very unexpected happens) I can try again, arguing that it's important for > the project. > > > > >> >> (And probably sooner or later of ISPs, in not violating network >> neutrality, who knows... ;-) ) >> >> >> -leif >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
