Re: Leo is skinning www.cpan.org

[email protected] (Ask Bjørn Hansen)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
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On Sep 26, 2010, at 17:40, David Golden <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm more interested in getting a proper tiering structure in place and a way
> for people to register themselves on a tier.

Just start with:

Tier 1 = handpicked mirrors using the instant sync thing; tier 2 = everything else.

> How we syndicate is (a) easy if we just use the old MIRRORED.BY that old clients support and (b) half-easy if we have a new way to publish information that future
> clients can support.

For new clients I'd really like if we put the discovery mechanism on a separate hostname from the regular mirrors (a copy of the files should be on the mirrors, too).

Related notes: would it make sense to sign the (timestamped) list of mirrors?
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