Repository feature proposal

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 17:45, Alan Cox wrote:
> > reasons.  My initial thoughts are that someone needs to step forward to
> > work with the mirrors to maintain a list (our IS guys try, but they're
> > far too overworked to really be able to spend significant amounts of
> > time on this -- I'm sure smooge will jump in to ditto this ;)  Then, we
> 
> Why isnt it automated ? You need a sign up form, a script to verify a 
> mirror seems to be valid/complete, and I guess 10,000 lines of idiot

There's nothing that says it can't be automated, but it still requires
someone to do some work to begin with :-)

Jeremy