On 22-Nov-15 03:09, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
Dave Barton wrote:
I do not understand, or
find any reasonable explanation, why our download page does not redirect
to the ASF's own mirror network:
https://www.apache.org/mirrors/
where our binaries are already being served by 200+ mirrors around the
world.
Leaving all the SourceForge discussion aside, one reasonable
explanation for this last question is that the vast majority of Apache
mirrors do NOT mirror OpenOffice: those who do are a minority. I've
just tried with the Italian mirrors and only 2 out of 7 offer
OpenOffice. Load balancers are broken by this incomplete mirroring:
even if you try to download the source package
http://openoffice.apache.org/downloads.html you often have to try
multiple mirrors before getting one that works.
Accepted that SourceForge is the only solution, but what I miss is a
warning on the OpenOffice download page.
If there is nothing we can do to improve the situation we could at least
warn the "unaware" user about the dangers.
In short, the ASF mirror network is not nearly as complete and
reliable as it seems at a first look (besides having other issues such
as lack of stats and lack of unique download URLs).
Regards,
Andrea.
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