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

[Christian Kuhn]

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