Hi everyone,
First: Thank you for mirroring CPAN!
# Big CPAN update
This is the first post to this mailing list in over half a decade. We've been dusting off a bit and have just released the first phase of some big upgrades (we think) to CPAN. You might already have seen, if not go to your CPAN mirror or to http://www.cpan.org/ :-)
# Master mirror change
Another change that's important to all of you is that the CPAN master mirror has changed. We have a new "how to mirror" page at http://www.cpan.org/misc/how-to-mirror.html
If you are currently mirroring from rsync.nic.funet.fi or (in particular) from ftp.funet.fi, please change your mirror source to be rsync://cpan-rsync.perl.org/CPAN/ -- let us know at cpan@perl.org when you've changed the mirror source so we can update the MIRRORED.BY file.
# Tier 1 mirrors wanted!
Other related news: cpan-rsync.perl.org will soon be a "distributed tier 1 mirror" -- and we need tier 1 rsync mirrors! Rather than use plain rsync, we'll use our new "instant mirroring" system that allows a mirror to be up-to-date within 30 seconds of a file being uploaded to PAUSE with very little overhead.
If you want to help be a tier 1 mirror, please see the wiki page on the "instant mirroring" test: https://github.com/perlorg/cpanorg/wiki/Instant-update-mirroring -- send me an email off-list to get an rsync username/password for the "tier 0 master mirror" if you are going to setup a tier 1 rsync mirror.
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