On 21/03/2010 02:01, Mark Martinec wrote:
It was reported on the SA users' list that "takeyellow.com" was listed
as a mirror on our download page before the mirror actually had our
release files. Is that supposed to happen? I would think not.
Comments?
As long as the mirror is up to date within 24 hours then it is fine.
There is therefore that period of time where releases can be added to dist
but not yet appear on an otherwise valid mirror.
The site itself and the mirror are fine, updating properly and not breaking
any rules that I can see. 'TakeYellow' is a directory listing service, so
it is no surprise that it looks like a parking page.
No action to do here, move along :)
To my taste, ASF mirrors should not be allowed to hijack nonexistent
URLs within a mirror directory. Such practice should cause an immediate
ban/drop of such site from a list of official mirrors. ASF mirror
directories should not offer free advertising to visitors who
try to access a nonexistent link, in good faith they are accessing
ASF contents.
Mark
For what it's worth, there site does not have any advertising on it, in
the part of the site where they host the Apache mirror [1]
They are free to host whatever content they want to, so long as it is
not in the same uri space as the mirror content.
Also, how often do you go to a mirror to browse their site? I reckon
you just use the most local one to you, as linked from the respective
projects' download site.
As Gavin said, move on. Nothing to see here.
--
Cheers,
Tony
[1] http://www.takeyellow.com/apachemirror/
--------------------------------------------
Tony Stevenson
t...@pc-tony.com - pct...@apache.org
pct...@freenode.net - t...@caret.cam.ac.uk
http://blog.pc-tony.com
1024D/51047D66
--------------------------------------------
