Re: Playboy mirror logo?
--On Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:37 PM +1000 Ian Holsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mirror.au.apache.org or something which just does a round robin on available mirrors in the 'au' region.. that the downloader only sees a 'apache' domain. but this would should be a 'global' change.. not just for the mirrors some people don't like. IMHO, DNS-based round-robin makes it harder to provide the ability to route around broken mirrors for three reasons: 1) harder to insert/remove them dynamically: mirrors.cgi can use our freshness metrics gathered by mirmon to only show mirrors that have updated since a particular time (we want this for sec releases) 2) we'd have to update DNS on every status change: mirrors go stale and we take them out of active list and insert them when the problem is fixed (this is automated right now by mirmon) 3) doesn't allow the user to avoid a mirror that is broken (but we haven't noticed yet); additionally, it provides the user the ability to select a mirror that they know is close to them or have a particularly good connection to. My $.02. -- justin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 25 août 04, à 15:53, Sam Ruby a écrit : ...What Jim meant when he said that is that people should STOP saying things like I am begging you!! and God help us all., and START making concrete suggestions on how the policy itself should change... So how about: a) In principle, only logos from IT-related [1] entities are accepted -1. First of all, what's non-IT company's fault so it gets discriminated like that? Are they somehow second class and do not deserve to be mentioned? Second of all, I just don't see any logical justification behind this suggestion. b) Logos from other entities might be accepted if a vote among ASF members is more than X percent positive (suggest 80%) we will take your bandwidth, thank you, but your logo too sucky to be ever shown on our page. That's not the message I'd like ASF to show to the world out there. Vadim In this way, the basic rule is simple and we still allow exceptions when they make sense to a large majority of the ASF members. WDYT? -Bertrand [1] for example: IT companies, other open-source projects, universities, ISPs, gov agencies, etc. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)
Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 25 août 04, à 15:53, Sam Ruby a écrit : ...What Jim meant when he said that is that people should STOP saying things like I am begging you!! and God help us all., and START making concrete suggestions on how the policy itself should change... So how about: a) In principle, only logos from IT-related [1] entities are accepted -1. First of all, what's non-IT company's fault so it gets discriminated like that? Are they somehow second class and do not deserve to be mentioned? Second of all, I just don't see any logical justification behind this suggestion. b) Logos from other entities might be accepted if a vote among ASF members is more than X percent positive (suggest 80%) we will take your bandwidth, thank you, but your logo too sucky to be ever shown on our page. That's not the message I'd like ASF to show to the world out there. I completely agree with Vadim. if you don't like to download stuff from playboy.com don't. How hard is that? -- Stefano. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)
On 26 Aug 2004, at 15:18, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I completely agree with Vadim. if you don't like to download stuff from playboy.com don't. How hard is that? IIUC, the technical issue people are referring to is that the download page (and the dropdown list of servers to download from) won't appear at all because the string playboy features in it. Does this happen? Well: http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/archives/000513.html (10/2002) (I do wonder if they are able to read this discussion, BTW). So, *if* we find this to be a valid concern, we might ask PB to provide another hostname for it. I do hope however no other mirror has a hostname featuring strings like private, or hustler, or penthouse or any other so-called dubious name in it (in which I have elaborated about my known list of adult magazines, I assume I haven't read them all), and many other words which such censoring software might recognize as NSFW. All in all, this thread is becoming highly amusing. :-) BTW, I'm still +1 on keeping the cluestick in our hands, and leave the situation like Erik installed it. /Steven -- Steven Noelshttp://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source Java XMLAn Orixo Member Read my weblog athttp://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.orgstevenn at apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
