[CentOS] Broken repo / mirrors?

[Robert Nichols]

On 05/29/2010 12:53 AM, R P Herrold wrote:
> The information relayed through the day in IRC and on the main
> mailing list reflected what was known as it was known, what
> was likely, and how it was being approached.
>
> In back control channels, the CentOS team was studying the
> matter, testing retrievals, passing updates to public facing
> parts of the group, and updating findings and possible fixes
> (and thus eta to convergences). This was available and passed
> along to public facing team members as the earth rotated
> through the day.  Let's consider it an unplanned trial shift
> in approach toward more openness on matters which have
> historically been less visible, and see how it worked out

OK, I'm curious.  What is this "main mailing list"?  And what are
the "public facing parts of the group" and "public facing team
members"?  The way you describe it, it sounds as though you feel
that passing information around within the clique counts as
"openness".  I hope that's not what you intended to imply.

I'll confess I didn't look on IRC.  The problem I have with IRC
is that I have to sit on there all day or risk missing what might
be a significant part of the discussion.  I read this mailing
list as a newsgroup on gmane.org, and there I can look back at
the entire discussion at any time.  There's no equivalent I know
of for that on IRC.

> There were at most handful of 'non-insider' posters today
> (Heller, Roth, Cox, Nichols, Charm) and I think three relevant
> bugs, which bugs should all be addressed by now.

I guess I just don't get it.  A handful of non-insiders post about
an issue that's affecting all i386 users, and that's a problem??
The most significant "insider" post I saw here blamed the issue
on mirror lag and basically told anyone who had a problem with
that to go away.  That leaves the impression that the problem is
expected to correct itself in due time and that no other action
is needed.  I really hope you did not take offense at my pointing
out evidence that this appeared to be something other than mirror
lag.

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