Am 08/03/2011 02:17 AM, schrieb Gavin McDonald:
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From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de]
Sent: Wednesday, 3 August 2011 9:40 AM
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: How to handle the downloads?
Am 08/02/2011 11:03 PM, schrieb Gavin McDonald:
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From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de]
Sent: Wednesday, 3 August 2011 12:55 AM
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: How to handle the downloads?
Thanks for you note. Then we should implement adownload method
withthe fllowing order:
1. User clicks on the One-Click-Download URL and get the software
(like today on "download.openoffice.org").
2. If not, he can use alternative download links (like today on
"download.openoffice.org/pther.html").
3. If a special mirror has to be used, the list of all available
mirrors
will help
(like today on "http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors";).
Latest with step 3 all users should be able to download something.
Yep, all possible here at the ASF right now.
See www.apache.org/mirrors for our equiv of step 3.
I've already understood that you don't want the OOo mirrors but that we
should use the Apache ones. ;-)
Hi Marcus,
don't count me as 100% on that yet, I want to know more about the OOo
mirrors too.
OK, if you have already questions just ask and I will try to give answers.
I just didn't want to be maintaining 150+ projects on one mirror system and
1 project
on another mirror system. maintaining one mirror system is easier, so If
that is possible
and our mirroring system can cope, and we can maybe coax a few more mirrors
our way
all the better. Some of our existing mirrors may decide that bandwidth is
too much and
leave, so we need replacements.
I don't know about bandwidth but to get an impression about size and
amount please have a look here. This mirror has rsync'ed everything that
was released by Sun and Oracle:
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/openoffice/
If it makes sense to try and merge these somehow, I want to pursue that
avenue.
A first step should be to look for doubles.
We may need both for some time, we can not put non ASF releases on our
mirroring system
anyway so what we are trying to resolve is from our first ASF release
onwards.
Hm, when looking at this mirror it is already hosting non-Apache software:
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/
Software from Apache and, e.g., OpenOffice.org is just a subset within
many other projects.
Marcus
Am 08/02/2011 04:38 PM, schrieb Donald Whytock:
A consideration...I for one have a need to be able to select my
mirror. My office's firewall blocks certain domains and websites,
especially those recognized as "hosting" or "file-sharing" sites.
It does not, however, block .edu sites, so when I download an Apache
product I select a university mirror.
Other users may have similar constraints. If OOo's download process
is going to tie into Apache mirroring, please don't completely
eliminate the capacity to select the mirror.
Don
