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

[Markus Klein]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> > do you mean we should hardcode the typo3.org mirror in the Core, or shall
> we simply modify the mirror-list downloaded by the EM?
> 
> How often are the mirrors synchronized? Is it possible to synchronize a bit
> more often?
> 
> Fetching the list of extensions from t3o but then fetching the actual
> extension from a mirror which is not yet ready will fail.
> 
> Purpose of the mirrors is to spread load but it gives other problems such as
> synchronizing the download counter (does somebody know if this finally
> works or if only t3o is taken into account?).

Do we really encounter so much load that it justifies the "overhead" of mirrors?

> 
> Waiting a few hours was not a problem for a long time because we did not
> have cron jobs to automatically reload the list, to monitor what's going on, to
> alert if a security release is out, etc. Nowadays, we are getting pinged really
> quickly when something happens and we see that users expect much more
> than before with the concept of "synced mirror".
> 
> Or maybe we should delay the notification for a few hours until mirrors are in
> sync? This leads to other issues :)
> 
> --
> Xavier Perseguers
> Release Manager TYPO3 4.6
> 
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Kind regards
Markus

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Markus Klein
TYPO3 CMS Active Contributors Team Member