From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11995 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2001 22:09:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 11803 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2001 22:08:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 22:08:44 -0000 Received: from dns.eng.auburn.edu ([131.204.10.13] helo=Eng.Auburn.EDU) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 16CTAh-00077N-00 for ; Fri, 07 Dec 2001 17:08:43 -0500 Received: from caspian.eng.auburn.edu (IDENT:8411@caspian.eng.auburn.edu [131.204.12.27]) by Eng.Auburn.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26058; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:09:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (langfml@localhost) by caspian.eng.auburn.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.6.4) with ESMTP id QAA16906; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:08:38 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: caspian.eng.auburn.edu: langfml owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 14:20:00 -0000 From: Matthew Langford To: Gerald Pfeifer cc: gcc@gnu.org Subject: Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00384.txt.bz2 On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Matthew Langford wrote: > > What's up with this page? > > I'm not a native speaker, but which part of "Please let us know if you > are mirroring the GCC pages so we can note it here!" was unclear to you? > > We only list those mirror sites that inform us that they want to be > listed. Do these sites have to mirror all the GCC pages or just the release directories? If all, why? It seems to me you have a problem getting people to mirror GCC. And yet, as I mentioned, there must be a gazillion GNU mirror sites. You _know_ they are mirroring, and they are mirroring a gzipped release of your software. Why not mention _them_ on your downloads page? It's all about _downloads_ and not total site mirroring. As long you make sure the GNU site is kept semi-constantly up to date, a mirror of GNU is a mirror of you. You are making people come to you, like it's a special privilege to mirror GCC, instead of looking to list already available mirrors, so people can get your software and make things happen. > (I'll happily apply a patch of yours to improve the wording on that > page. Really!) Okay, pseudo-patch: stick in a link to http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html, saying these sites may be slightly slower to update, but are preferrable to a trans-oceanic link. And then set cron jobs to make sure the GNU ftp sites are mirroring at least the latest stable release. -- MattLangford