[TYPO3-english] Setting of TER mirror in TYPO3 6.x? Or change mirror concept?

[Markus Klein]

Hi!

IMHO we need to fixes here. A short term and a long term.
The short term fix is to either to bring a UI to select a mirror manually, or to always use the typo3.org mirror (removing the random selection in the code). ASAP!
The long term is to get of course all the stuff you described below, but I still think some clever solution to have "local" TERs (either private or for continents) shall be given.

Kind regards
Markus

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Markus Klein
TYPO3 CMS Active Contributors Team Member

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> bounces at lists.typo3.org] On Behalf Of Steffen Gebert
> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2013 12:16 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TYPO3-english] Setting of TER mirror in TYPO3 6.x? Or change
> mirror concept?
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> Christian, thanks for the offer. I think that should be discussed.
> The one good thing with the mirrors.xml was that we could easily adjust the
> URL of the mirror. So before you now hard-code typo3.org/fileadmin/ter/,
> we might want to move that to ter.typo3.org (which could just be the same
> nginx pointing to the old directory.
> 
> I see (esp. Asian) people crying out loud because the can't use any mirrors
> near them, however I don't see problems for T3X downloads, but only for
> the icons in the EM (huge number of requests with high delay would really
> slow the loading process down).
> 
> Other than that (from my limited point of view) I don't expect lot of
> problems. In Sept. the T3X downloads from the typo3.org server were 92GB
> "only". Compared to our Git server (580GB in September, btw. thanks
> Speedpartner / Stefan Neufeind for sponsoring) that's nothing.
> 
> How does that all relate to the concept of own TERs? Should that still be
> possible? Will this be influenced by such a change?
> 
> Kind regards
> Steffen
> 
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> On 10/5/13 11:41 AM, Christian Kuhn wrote:
> > On 10/04/2013 07:26 PM, Steffen Gebert wrote:
> >> That (unfortunately) still hasn't happened, from my side because I
> >> very much think the that implemented concept is bad. Especially when
> >> it comes to download counter, it's horrible (there's a script that
> >> was only active on the old typo3.org server that goes through the
> >> access log every night and reports the download stats via a SOAP
> request).
> >
> > The mirror handling *is* implemented in 6.0 em.
> >
> > As far as I recall, the mirror handling was implemented in a time when
> > typo3.org was unstable and offline pretty often, so the main reason
> > was not load but stability.
> >
> > Since typo3.org is very stable nowadays, we could imho drop the whole
> > mirror stuff to not face all those issues with synchronisation,
> > organising external systems, download counters, timing issues and so on.
> > As far as I know the codebase beyond that on typo3.org is also not
> > really nice nor maintained.
> >
> > So, if nobody objects, we could just create a patch for em 6.0 to drop
> > all that stuff, what do you think?
> >
> > Regards
> > Christian
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