2 mirrorlist changes for this week

[Mike McGrath]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> Vasile, admin of repo.fedoramd.org, noticed two bugs in the mirrorlist
> script.
>
> 1) some users aren't being resolved by GeoIP.  Turns out, we have two
>    different copies of the GeoIP.dat database on app3 and app4.  I
>    want to update both to have this month's copy.  We should also
>    figure out how to automate getting this file once a month and
>    publishing to our app servers.
>   

This sounds very low risk, I'd say you could do this during the freeze 
without issue.

> 2) If a user isn't resolved by GeoIP, they will be given the global
>    list, but without excluding mirrors who have an Exclusive Country
>    set (e.g. Vasile's server really only wants traffic from .md users,
>    but he sees global users).  This requires a change to
>    mirrorlist_server.py trim_by_client_country() which I haven't made
>    yet, but will look into doing so.  We should make this change to
>    provide better accurate clients to our mirrors to keep their
>    expenses down.  I'll post the patch here for review before implementing.
>   

Were you planning on implementing this pre or post F8 launch?

    -Mike