[arch-dev-public] Arch mirrors

[Simo Leone]

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
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