On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:18:28AM +0800, John Summerfield enlightened us:
chrism@imntv.com wrote:
If you read my earlier posts, you might have noticed terms like "download limits."
Most users don't have "all you can eat" plans, and if they exceed their quota they can be charged extra ($60-120 per gigabyte) or br throttled back to modemesque speeds.
What on Earth does that have to do with anything? You've got poor connectivity or expensive connectivity or both in the "last mile" part of your link to the Internet. How is changing the mirroring system going to help you or others like you?
You haven't shown how the mirroring system find a good mirror, and the evidence Johnny gave shows it doesn't.
IT seems to me your definition of "good" and everyone else's is not the same. You seem to think good means local to you - everyone else who doesn't have last mile cost considerations (probably a majority of non-AU users) just want to get their stuff the fastest - hence the fastest-mirror plugin.
I think that's pretty good evidence that for the majority of CentOS users, that's a good system.
There _are_ good mirrors, I wasted some time perusing broadband plans and found another (only has I32 and AMD-64, but finding zSeries was a surprise).
Your mirror system doesn't show them to users, and that's a problem to those users whom it costs.
We can't show them to users if we don't know about them. We aren't mind readers, contrary to popular belief.
_I_ think Debian handles mirrors pretty well, it lets me specify country and gives me a choice, and the names I see mean something.
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13
Those Centos names might mean something to someone, but from here they just looked like someone chose random (or maybe consecutive) letters to differentiate their names. When I believed they are Australian, I tried to match them to Australian localities, but failed.
There may be a valid point here. I don't help manage the centosX servers, so I am unaware if they frequently change locations, etc. If they are relatively static, then perhaps a naming scheme that indicates country or continent of origin would be useful. But again - I don't think most people care. If a server half a world away is faster, I'm going to use that one.
Matt