Fedora Bounties (seeking ideas)

[Patrick W. Barnes]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 19:09, "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>
> I did this by taking the old FC4 ".us.east" lists and (after
> confirmation of the repos) including them on my system.  I wasn't sure
> that was the accepted usage, but now it seems so.  I know there are
> probably myriad ways to accomplish this with a more user-friendly bent,
> but would it make sense for there to be a tool that asked the user to
> select a geographic region, and populated a local mirror list
> appropriately, using a remotely gathered list that included lat/long
> data?  Does such a thing exist already and I'm just clueless?

We've always said that the best way for someone to get the best mirrors is for 
them to gather a list of their preferred mirrors and set up that list in 
their yum configuration.  This was true even before the mirrorlist option was 
enabled.

Unfortunately, there isn't a single reliable way to automatically generate the 
best list for any given person at any given location.  Physical proximity is 
rarely a good indicator of the best mirrors.  As we work towards better 
mirror management, we'll be able to produce more reliable lists.  We're 
hoping to enable smart redirection to disperse requests to mirrors.  At the 
moment, download.fedoraproject.org does do redirects, but we don't yet have 
the ability to make those redirections at all intelligent.

That would be one potential project.  Bouncer is the tool we've been looking 
at, but it needs work before we can hope to use it.  Really, just about any 
working solution would be welcome.

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