On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 16:29 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > On 9/12/2012 11:30 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > I'd like to request that editors try to find alternative sites to > > sourceforge. If that's the only site available, please offer anduin as > > an alternate source. > > The only problem with that is everyone (including editors) do not know > where the main hosting site for the package is, and makes it more > difficult to find original source, updates, patches, etc. > > If we do this, I suggest we create an entity something like "This > package is hosted at Sourceforge and due to slow download speeds > another URL is listed. You can find the package at". And then add > xxxxxxxx.sourceforge.net.
The other thing with sourceforge is that it has geographical based mirrors, so the slow download speeds may only affect a small subset of the readership. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
