[Typo3-typo3org] Concept for mirroring the TER

[Jan-Hendrik Heuing [NF]]

Hello !

I've got something different in mind, some sort of advanced local TER. It 
does not have something todo with mirrors, but with local TERs. I will write 
more to that in about a week. Until saturday, I am too busy for some overall 
description.

For now these things in the concept could have little changes in my eyes:

- "The version number of the extension will be still controlled by the TER 
and the updated version number will be returned to the Extension Manager 
which updates the local extension"
-> I suggest to have that not only controled by TER, it should also take 
care of the plugin-version-number. Example: TER is online with 1.3.0, and 
local extension has got 1.4.0 because of local repositories. In this case it 
makes sense to choose the HIGHER number of both increased by either one of 
the 3 numbers. In this example, it could result in 1.4.1 online in TER and 
the local extension.

- exclusivly-file-based-mirrors: For local TERs, I'd suggest to also have 
available what is online on typo3.org. A webfrontend including some tools. 
More about this next weekend. The exclusivly-file-based-mirrors could for 
sure be used as mirrors, different to local TERs.

- DNS + round robin: There should be some caching of that for a very short 
time in the clients. If one TER is not available, that it chooses the other 
one automaticly the next time. DNS does not know if a server is offline and 
still populates that IP in any way. We thought about some bind-manipulation 
where it would be taken care of this problem. The DNS tries to reach those 
servers, if one failes, it automaticly takes out that IP. This is still 
theory beside some experiments, so this would work out. But the other thing: 
It could also use some p2p methods. You download typo3 with a default set of 
TERs. Those TERs list the others available, so extending to new TERs would 
be possible automaticly. If the client can not access a TER, it would delete 
it from it's own list. If that TER is still populated on the list of TERs, 
the client will automaticly recieve that in some time again anyway.

So the overall change in my eyes would be local TERs (company wide or 
something like that) to not only have that as a file structure, but also 
like real TER with frontend things etc., as it could be made to a good 
dev-tool.

JH




"Robert Lemke" <robert at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1110193475.22408.typo3-team-typo3org at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi folks,
>
> I just uploaded my draft for the mirroring concept to our team page [1].
> Please comment on the general ideas at this list.
>
> As soon as we agreed on the general concept we should split the project 
> into
> different tasks, find people taking over these tasks, define an order and
> thus create a roadmap. There will be some tasks I will reserve for myself
> but there will be lots of things left to be done on other parts, 
> especially
> the Extension Manager.
>
> [1] http://typo3.org/teams/typo3org/documents/mirroring-the-ter/
>
> -- 
> robert