From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 06:05:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1953337B401 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 06:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E81D43F3F for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 06:05:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029D63D28; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:05:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: jason andrade Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:05:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3F1666F0.12316.3864F42F@localhost> Priority: normal References: <20030717121225.GB410@nitro.dk> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mirror Site Requirements - Summary thus far... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:05:54 -0000 On 17 Jul 2003 at 22:42, jason andrade wrote: > it is a lot of very small files which are very rarely looked at > by http/ftp users - so why are we carrying them any more since > this stuff is made available via cvs/cvsup ? A good point. I think we have to remember who our clients our. In this case, it is the general public. That's who we should be catering to. Carry what they want. We want to make things as easy as possible for them. They are the ones we need/want/must impress. The ease of install is a very important factor and forms a significant part of the first impression. If we agree the above is true, then it's not so important for a mirror to carry the files which the general public will not want. At present, I'd say the general public wants 4.8-RELEASE. Yes, some of them will even want 5.*. But apart from that, what else do they want? Perhaps before we need to decide that first. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/