From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 12:05:51 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 8254737B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:05:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5AF43F93 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:05:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (kensmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h5JJ5nbr000692 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:05:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h5JJ5nUm000691 for freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:05:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:05:49 -0400 From: Ken Smith To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030619190549.GA29748@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Where to go from here 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, 19 Jun 2003 19:05:51 -0000 There hasn't been much time for Cejka's comments to settle in. But IMO his comments are not something that should be passed on to re@ and portmgr@. They should be passed on to the Mirror System Coordinator(s) because I think they all address things that the re@/portmgr@ folks won't feel they should be involved in. I get the feeling they think the Mirror System is a big black box, they're the users of that box but they'd prefer it if they did not need to know how it works or tinker around in it. All of those ideas are good and should be looked into but I think it's us that need to do the looking, not re@/portmgr@. I propose the following: 1) We pass on my version of the doc to re@/portmgr@ to see what they say. I think if they start to do things that way the existing mirror structure should work a bit better. 2) Amongst ourselves we work to make the mirror system better. There was the idea I floated earlier about the timestamp files along with the ideas Cejka sent out. Cejka's are better ideas as far as functionality goes, the only issue IMO would be getting enough sites to buy in at the Tier-1 level and I have no idea right now if that's easy or hard. Hopefully it's easy. :-) Does anyone (Cejka in particular :-) see a problem with that? -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |