simple design and consistent look and feel

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Fri Sep 7 03:03:15 UTC 2007


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
>   And we shouldn't
>> be exposing users to the public mirror list?  I disagree, especially 
>> during release time people need to figure out which mirrors work 
>> (many of them get overwhelmed) and the public list is kept fairly 
>> accurate because of its checks and when a user gets to a mirror that 
>> is too slow for them, they can take a closer look.
>
> This shouldn't be the primary interface. Users should be able to 
> select the spin, type of media or installation, arch and region and 
> get a url to ISO directly. Only if you opt to see the mirror list 
> should you be shown that.  The idea behind that is to not confuse 
> users with a long list of mirrors and users wouldn't have to know the 
> mirror structure to figure out the right location either.
>
Which is why I mentioned:

https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/74

In my previous email.  Besides, our prefered method is still bittorrent 
- not that its our users :(

    -Mike




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