X.Org Board Meetings: Mar. 2 Summary, Mar. 16 Agenda

[Alan Coopersmith]

Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> We could advise "please choose your nearest secondary mirror, and if you 
> are in doubt about the integrity, try after that to rsync your repository 
> again against rsync://ftp.x.org/ftp/ or any tier-1 mirror".
> 
> This way traffic could get delegated to new helpers - in case we will need 
> that once.

Thanks to the generous bandwidth provided by MIT & PSU to the X.Org &
FreeDesktop.Org machines, we don't actually need to delegate traffic.

(Modularization probably helps a bit too, since most downloads aren't
 the multi-hundred MB monolith, but much smaller modules, most of which
 change and need new downloads much more rarely.)

We've not had issues with bandwidth on our end, so could live without mirrors,
but we also recognize that mirrors in other parts of the world, especially
those parts where there is mandatory nationwide Internet filtering or
low-bandwidth links to North America, are useful for people in those areas
to improve their bandwidth or reduce their latency in downloading, so while
we're not anxious about needing to find more sites to mirror us, we want to be
helpful in allowing others to provide them.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System