If we can get the MIRROR.yaml|json system I proposed finally deployed, this rewrite would become trivially easy.
Adam K On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi <j...@iki.fi> wrote: > On Sunday-201009-26 8:16, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: >> >> On Sep 26, 2010, at 4:49, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: >> >>> It has become the time for me to admit to what has probably been pretty >>> obvious for anyone else already for some time - I do not have the time >>> to give CPAN the attention it deserves. Time to pass the baton, etc. >> >> Thank you Jarkko -- had it not been for your early invention and work with >> CPAN I don't think many of us would be here or be as productive with Perl as >> we are. > > On a more urgent note: could you and Elaine coordinate on moving/copying > stuff out of gargoyle where e.g. the mirrors.cpan.org runs? > The webster.edu has given us a strong hint of moving out a.s.a.p. > I think the first order of things would be just copying data out of > gargoyle, we can worry about the services later. > > In the FUNET side things are not as critical to move out though their > admins do worry about the insane rsync load. Whatever the future > system is, direct plain rsync connections should not be recommended: > rsync is just too heavy. I and Elaine do have accounts to FUNET > and can move stuff in and out (more accounts though not impossible > are unlikely). > > Regarding the maintenance scripts in FUNET: there isn't much that I > would be, ahem, proud to share: they are mostly dead simple shell / > very early Perl 5 scripts. For 95% of that stuff I would recommend writing > from scratch. Perhaps the most important new thing needed > would be some sort of CPAN mirror staleness alerting script, as input > using Henk Pennings' mirror scan results. I had over the years a few of > those systems, all of them rotted eventually. As an extension of just > checking the timestamp of the magical timestamp file, it would be nice > to have some sort of random sampling of mirrors: are they really valid > uptodate mirrors? > >> >> - ask >> > >
