On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 09:25:35AM +0000, Pontus Stenetorp wrote: > scripting together some sort of "mirror health" tool would be a fairly easy > (yet probably valuable)
In principle it might sound 'fairly easy', but once you start to add code to deal with things such as sites going down for planned maintenance, being unavailable from certain locations due to network problems and so on, your simple tool would quickly start to grow in complexity. In any case, the list of mirrors needs to be manually reviewed. I vaguely remember some years ago a previously good mirror started serving a pre-release copy of the distribution as if it was the actual release, and was subsequently removed. A simple mirror health tool likely wouldn't catch that.
