[Typo3-typo3org] Concept for mirroring the TER

[Jan-Hendrik Heuing [NF]]

Generaly this diff-thing sounds interesting, but I only think about 
research, not about traffic. As you would increase server load by this, 
while traffic is no problem in that dimension...

JH

"Michael Stucki" <michael at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1110271477.9883.typo3-team-typo3org at lists.netfielders.de...
> Ciao Roberto,
>
>> I just uploaded my draft for the mirroring concept to our team page [1].
>> Please comment on the general ideas at this list.
>
> Basically, this looks really good to me!
>
> Suggestions/corrections:
> =========================
> Round robin: I'm not an expert with this but I guess that the DNS should 
> not
> alternate between IP addresses but CNAMES:
> mirrors.typo3.org:
>  => mycompany.mirrors.typo3.org
>  => ch2.mirrors.typo3.org
>
> See below why this might be helpful to still reach a specific mirror.
>
>
> Why master repository? I think this is not needed at all. Why not have the
> Super Mirrors doing this? The required steps seem to be easy I guess:
>
> - Before uploading a new extension, the Super Mirror checks on all others 
> if
>  this extension is known/availble by them (for solving conflicts)
>  If found => redirect the client to this server for further processing.
>
> - If an extension is being searched and not found, one could run a "global
>  search" in order to let the Super Mirrors look up at his
>
>
> Small detail:
> If you want to run the repository exactly like Debian, I suggest you use
> this structure:
> /ter/public/t/e/templavoila/0.3.0/templavoila.t3x
> /ter/public/t/te/templavoila/templavoila_0.3.0.t3x
>
> However I like this idea more:
> /ter/public/t/te/templavoila/0.3.0/templavoila_0.3.0.t3x
> (If you don't want to add the version number twice, please at least make
> sure that the filename is being changed when sending HTTP headers.)
>
>
> Questions:
> ===========
> How is typo3.org handling those different repositories? Will it fetch the
> data from its own (private) mirror?
>
> Why do you want to add possibility to limit traffic to a certain amount?
> I guess this makes it nothing but complicated. It would be much easier if
> the provider could just edit the mirror list and remove his name if he
> thinks it's enough.
> (If you have an easy solution for that problem, simply forget my
> comment ;-))
>
>
> Further ideas:
> ===============
> Watch the above file system structure. If we add a special (not mirrored)
> subdirectory that holds the unpacked extension (e.g. "_unpacked") then we
> could easily provide a diff feature which lets you compare between 
> selected
> versions. Would be very useful I guess!
>
>
> Kind regards,
> - michael
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