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

[Steffen Gebert]

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Hi,

I've written together some TODOs:
https://notes.typo3.org/p/deactivating-TER-mirrors

Please extend that with your comments.

Kind regards
Steffen

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On 10/5/13 5:48 PM, Christian Kuhn wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On 10/05/2013 12:16 PM, Steffen Gebert wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> At the moment I don't really see an issue with hardcoding the link. It
> may be not optimal, but we could remove a whole layer of complexity from
> em if we kill the mirrors, and also typo3.org handling could get more
> simple.
> 
> This random mirror selection with current synchronisation issues really
> sucks, this is for example obvious with a caretaker server that may
> toggle 'security' status of extensions if one mirror got the new info,
> but another not. We're experiencing those issues for a long time already
> with a task that updates the extension list on a regular basis. Our
> solution was to hardcode the mirror to typo3.org ;)
> 
> For b/w compatibility we could just hardcode the mirrors.xml.gz file on
> typo3.org pointing to the main system only and don't touch it anymore
> afterwards. This way we could also clean up the typo3.org codebase quickly.
> 
> Regards
> Christian
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