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

[Mike McGrath]

On 10/26/06, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>

Definatly.

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

Being able to define which dists/repos are available for mirroring all
through the webpage instead of a flat config file.

           -Mike