On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Andrew Kenna wrote: > Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:28:31 +1100 > From: Andrew Kenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Heads up... > > The master mirror if you want to call it that would still be > www.apache.org, and from my understanding any permissions problems that > the mirrors encounter should be posted to this list and someone will > then forward it to the approriate person or mailing list to be fixed up. > > I know any emails I see in here relating to permissions problems are > forwarded off to another mailing list where the people with the right > access are reading it..
In the past, some 'permission problems' could only be solved by adding more '--exclude' options. Other problems for mirrors, have gone unsolved for years. The current mirror site looks abysmally bad: just a directory listing with a header comment. An apache mirror is only usable by an expert: if you know what you need, you can get it there; if you don't, you're lost. Compare the www.apache.org with a mirror; see the difference ? If apache 'central' would just be responsible for only one mirror, things would undoubtedly improve. The problem is, and has been, and will be, that no one is responsible and/or in a position to improve things. Now thing become bigger, they will have to become better too. The question is : how ? I say, set up a central mirror site. > Andrew Regards Henk Penning Henk P. Penning, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University \__/ \ Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. \__/ Telephone: +31-30-2534106, fax: 2513791, NIC-handle: HPP1 _/ \__/ \ News.answers http://www.cs.uu.nl/cgi-bin/faqwais \__/ \__/ \__/
