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Re: [Savannah-users] Download hosting, and SVN webpages
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Sylvain Beucler |
Subject: |
Re: [Savannah-users] Download hosting, and SVN webpages |
Date: |
Fri, 6 Mar 2009 20:43:53 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hi,
> I've noticed that my nongnu.org project redirects the download area
> to a URL on a variety of mirrors, often very-clever.com.
>
> How are these mirrors chosen,
Using GeoIP - aka an IP->country database, refreshed monthly.
Also if the server didn't replicate after 1 day, it's removed from the
redirect list.
https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=5574
> and why are you using them?
Well, to reduce the Savannah bandwidth and direct people to mirrors
that are nearer them.
> I ask partly as very-clever.com appears to be some not-great spam
> site, and I'm not sure I'm that comfortable having the official
> downloads for my project hosted there.
No vague claims please.
http://www.very-clever.com/download/nongnu/ looks pretty clean and our
contact there offers the mirroring and bandwidth with no counterparts.
I don't see a reason to complain, but maybe you can precise what is
annoying you.
> A completely different question: are you planning to allow / enforce
> svn to control the project webpages any time soon? Looks like gna do
> now...
This isn't planned right now.
--
Sylvain