On Monday 19 March 2012 4:30:52 PM Tom Albers wrote: > Dear release-team, > > The sysadmin team is slowly planning to replace download.kde.org with a new > version. We are currently testing its replacement. The summary is that > nothing will change, but the question is when is a suitable time in the > release planning to execute this switch? For those interested in the juicy > details, read on... > > Current situation > - You are creating a page like: > http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.8.1.php > - That holds a link to http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/4.8.1/ > (step 1) > - This is a list of mirrors (step 2), > - When clicked on a mirror, you get to the specified folder (step 3). > > A couple of problems: it's not user friendly, why should a user select a > mirror? The detection of the nearest mirror is ... sub-optimal and it does > not take into account if that mirror in reality has the files needed. > > New situation. > - You are creating a page like: > http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.8.1.php > - That holds a link to http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/4.8.1/ > (step 1) > - When clicked on a mirror, you get to the specified folder (step 2). > > So, one step less. When clicked on a certain file in the listing from step 2, > it will automatically select the best mirror (geographically closest, > currently up and serving the file) and fetches it from that mirror. > > Another page you are creating currently is: http://www.kde.org/info/4.8.1.php > On that page are links to: > http://download.kde.org/stable/4.8.1/src/analitza-4.8.1.tar.xz > In the current situation, after a click you get to see the mirror selection > page. In the new setup, this step is skipped and you will immediately > download that file from the correct mirror. > > Additionally, you could decide to start appending '.mirrorlist' to the urls, > for example: > http://download.kde.org/stable/4.8.1/src/analitza-4.8.1.tar.xz.mirrorlist > This will lead to a page (after we switch) you can see here: > http://mirrorbrain-test.kde.org/stable/4.8.1/src/analitza-4.8.1.tar.xz.mirrorlist > > The advantage would be that this page provides metalinks and hashes. > Metalinks are becoming more popular and allowes users to simultaneously > download from multiple mirrors, verify hashes of the parts downloaded for > those fragments, and we can also provide torrent links and stuff like that. > > In summary: we hope to provide a drop in replacement for download.kde.org, > which is way smarter with the displayed mirrors, increased user friendliness > and increased functionality. What we need from you guys is a Saturday or > Sunday in the next month or so when we are allowed to switch download.kde.org > over to the new system.
Today/this weekend is a fine time :) Next weekend would also be ok. If not these two, then let's wait until mid April. _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
