Re: [arch-dev-public] Mirror status page

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:52:55 -0500, Dan McGee wrote:

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* You should rethink about putting those equations into yellow boxes with a bigger font size. They are not really the most important content on that site. This really has more to do with the theme/styling on the entire side and less to do with this page. I honestly don't think it distracts too much, but if a lot of people do we should adjust the theme. It is odd

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: that the <tt/> and <code/> tags don't really match up; you can see I used both of them.

Should I just switch to <tt/> everywhere?

No idea. But I'd reduce the font size to match the one from the surrounding text. It's not distracting, but clearly highlighted. But I don't care that much about this...

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* One should add to the "μ Delay" that it has an error of about an hour (=frequency of your cron job). Especially those with a delay of less than an hour sync hourly for real. I'm not sure I follow your logic- if they sync on the top of the hour, then we're pretty close to the "average" delay, which is halfway between 0-59 minutes anyway. I think it might be worth scheduling the cronjob in a slightly different way to not give any mirror an advantage. If we sync on the following schedule (13 times in 12 hours), no one time would get the benefit: 0:04 0:59 1:54 2:49 3:45 4:40 5:35 6:30 7:26 8:21 9:16 10:11 11:07

Sounds confusing of course, but would this make things better?

Should work. Another option would beto just round up the values to hours.

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* Make the mirror urls "clickable" I thought of this, but not sure what to click through to. We can easily do a mirror info page, but we can't/shouldn't show everything publicly.

I was more thinking about just putting an a tag around the url. :-)

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* It would be very nice to have all this information and probably more we have in the mirror db available via json. This way it can be easily used by other sites or tools like reflector. See https://git.archlinux.de/www.archlinux.de.git/tree/pages/MirrorStatusJSON.ph... for a simple example. Sounds like a feature request. :)

Indeed.

I think we could do this for a lot of the website- packages, groups, etc. I like the idea though.

A package list would be very huge. But this data is also distributed by our mirrors with the db files. So there wont be a real need for this. (the only thing missing from the db files is the maintainer's name; might be worth to just distribute that)

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* Would be nice if you could use the iso country names. E.g. its not Great Britain but United Kingdom or Russian Federation instead of Russia. We've been using these same names for ages. I can give you permission to go in and update things as you see fit if you'd like- the country is just freeform right now, there aren't choices.

So I could just update these values in the db without any side effects?

Getting this tied to an actual country object could make GeoIP integration of some sort be useful later down the road.

That was my intention. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre