On Feb 7, 2011, at 22:55, brian d foy wrote: > And, who makes the MIRRORED.BY file? I imagine that's something from a > script that Jarkko makes, but how does it get the data?
Henk Penning (aka the mirror list master since a few months ago) maintains a master mirrors.json file that a script on the perl.org servers converts to MIRRORED.BY. > I'd like to see about exporting it as JSON or something. Henk and I were just talking about adding a mirrors.json file a few days ago actually... So yes, coming soon. > Also, is it something that noc.perl.org has to handle as the master CPAN > moves off of FUNET? Already done; just not announced yet. - ask
