On 9/17/07, Simo Leone <simo@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:58:37AM -0700, eliott wrote:
There is a FS ticket for part of this thread: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7006
I support changing the link on the downloads page to reference the wiki. This would, however, allow end users to modify the mirror page thus changing the mirror list in a way that may be seen as more 'official'.
We could perhaps lock the mirrors page, but that semi-defeats the purpose of the change control suggestion.
Any thoughts or feedback of a high caliber?
I'd rather have the static mirror page for the reasons you mentioned. It seems kind of... open... to have a wikified mirror page.
If someone wants to add a mirror, it's not that hard to mail one of us and ask to have it added/removed/whatever, which amounts to the same thing as a locked wiki page, except the non-wiki page is prettier 8)
-S
Can we get http/ftp/rsync availability at least on the offical page? A nice table would do the trick: /***************|***********|**************|*************\ mirror | http | ftp | rsync \ foo.bar.com | <a href="http://...">HTTP</a> | <a href="ftp://.."> ........ You get the point. It shouldn't be very hard to write a little script that tests the current list of mirrors we have for availability of these three services. -Dan