Re: [Mageia-dev] mirror policy howto updates

2011-03-01 Thread Olivier Thauvin 
* Romain d'Alverny (rdalve...@gmail.com) wrote:
 Hi there,
 
 for info/review/improv, I updated the mirrors policy page
 (http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mirrors_policy ) to have:
  * better readability
  * more details on sections (distrib, iso, software, people, possible
 archive one)
  * the mirror howto at the end (may be moved to a separate how to
 become a mirror? page I guess).
 
 Some discussions occurred with a mirror admin that brought up some
 bits left to improve:

  * have a clear expiration policy (hard to define before having the
 support policy setup)

This cycle cannot be less the support time of a distrib, but the distro
can be archived later. At time I don't know what the support policy...
hard to said much, indeed.

  * have an archive section in the mirror

What is this for ?

  * keep on explaining the tainted section outcomes, so mirror admins
 have better facts  info to decide

  * provide clear rsync modules to help admins quickly pick up what
 fits best for them.

Since all mirrors sync their tree from tier1, and we don't have the hand
on tier1 servers, we cannot provides rsync share as we want...

 
 Romain
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Olivier Thauvin
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Re: [Mageia-dev] mirror policy howto updates

2011-03-01 Thread Romain d'Alverny 
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 14:28, Olivier Thauvin
nanar...@nanardon.zarb.org wrote:
 * Romain d'Alverny (rdalve...@gmail.com) wrote:
  * have a clear expiration policy (hard to define before having the
 support policy setup)

 This cycle cannot be less the support time of a distrib, but the distro
 can be archived later. At time I don't know what the support policy...
 hard to said much, indeed.

  * have an archive section in the mirror

 What is this for ?

To move its contents to cheaper/slower storage systems. It's related
to above expiration policy: expired stuff would go into the archive
section.

  * keep on explaining the tainted section outcomes, so mirror admins
 have better facts  info to decide

  * provide clear rsync modules to help admins quickly pick up what
 fits best for them.

 Since all mirrors sync their tree from tier1, and we don't have the hand
 on tier1 servers, we cannot provides rsync share as we want...

Well, the question was to ease tier1 admins in this regard. But we
might as well just provide guidance and ready-to-use script for tier2
and others.

Romain