[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Fwd: Re: wow.. why mirror?

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:24 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On 10/25/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > How can you help?  See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure for
> > information on how to contact our infrastructure team and help on the mirror
> > management project.
> >
> 
> 
> now that the return-mirrors script reads from a database this should
> get easier and easier.  We'll need an experienced python programmer to
> work on what we have.  I'll maintain the current branch but we need an
> overall solution for this.  Who out there can help?  We need:
> 
> 1) A way for people to add their own mirrors and maintain them
Authenticated, of course.

> 2) a web interface to add/delete mirrors from the current system
> 3) a more efficient way of checking the mirrors

We should think about threading the checking.

> 4) possible move the configs into the database itself?
what does this mean?

-sv