Just a quick question: I was looking for a list of existing mirrors, but I couldn't find any on
the new site - only on the old one (e.g. http://ludique.u-bourgogne.fr/grass/intro/general.php) ?
Is the mirror selection done automatically when downloading?
Rainer
On 18/01/13 15:01, Rainer M Krug wrote:
On 18/01/13 14:40, Markus Neteler wrote:
Thanks Rainer. Please let me know if you have success.
Well - it seems that Gavin beat me in Stellenbosch and is already in contact with IT and
geography there.
There is a OSGeo Africa mailing list - I'll ask there if somebody has a suggestion.
I just mirrored GRASS for myself, and it is 2.7GB and not the 700 mentioned on the website.
Is the focus on mirrors in South Africa only or general Africa?
Hospital - does not sound nice. Hopefuly you can soon send greetings from your desk again,
Cheers,
Rainer
Greetings from the hospital, Markus
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> wrote:
Just a quick question: I was looking for a list of existing mirrors, but I couldn't find any on
the new site - only on the old one (e.g. http://ludique.u-bourgogne.fr/grass/intro/general.php) ?
Is the mirror selection done automatically when downloading?
Rainer
all the old mirrors went out of sync with the switch to the CMS.
Pawel Netzel set up a new system for mirroring even the CMS
and turn it into a rsync master as before. See
The original plan was to have only the GRASS CMS at OSGeo
and the mirrors copying only the software and data files.
Pawel showed that also a full CMS cloning is possible (PLEASE
don't all now clone the CMS, it will bomb it out!!).
Due to my (ongoing) hospital stay I was not able to manage that
any more, hence incomplete.
I am not entirely convinced that the CMS should be cloned around
the globe. But no strong opinion yet.
Maybe some *strategic* mirrors in some countries are better than
maximising the clones (which ruins the page ranking and dilutes
the branding efforts when a mirror picks a higher ranking than the
master site as it happened before).
Markus
PS: In a while I'll be more active again.
On 18/01/13 21:23, Markus Neteler wrote:
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> wrote:
Just a quick question: I was looking for a list of existing mirrors, but I couldn't find any on
the new site - only on the old one (e.g. http://ludique.u-bourgogne.fr/grass/intro/general.php) ?
Is the mirror selection done automatically when downloading?
Rainer
all the old mirrors went out of sync with the switch to the CMS.
Pawel Netzel set up a new system for mirroring even the CMS
and turn it into a rsync master as before. See
The original plan was to have only the GRASS CMS at OSGeo
and the mirrors copying only the software and data files.
Pawel showed that also a full CMS cloning is possible (PLEASE
don't all now clone the CMS, it will bomb it out!!).
Due to my (ongoing) hospital stay I was not able to manage that
any more, hence incomplete.
I am not entirely convinced that the CMS should be cloned around
the globe. But no strong opinion yet.
OK - this explains.
Maybe some *strategic* mirrors in some countries are better than
maximising the clones (which ruins the page ranking and dilutes
the branding efforts when a mirror picks a higher ranking than the
master site as it happened before).
The branding and the stats are an important reason to keep some level of centralization (which is a problem of R which always comes up, as the mirror system is completely decentralized and it is effectively not possible to get any reliable figures).
Just an idea (and no idea how practical or even possible it is): if all downloads are *managed* by a central server (i.e. requests for download go the the central sever which then sends the request to the closest server, the download manager could keep stats of downloads, while the whole website would be available at different servers.
Cheers,
Rainer
Markus
PS: In a while I'll be more active again.
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