On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Kevin
Verma<kevinverma(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
I'll appreciate if someone can take up a project to make
new-mirror-setups more seamless for new takers of private/public
mirrors. Perhaps few interactive scripts, cron configurations, sync
scripts in a RPM, or if there is one existing already then I'll love
to know about it.
Susmit did demonstrate a "mirror-on-a-box" concept around a year back
with rudimentary scripts setting up a mirror. A larger requirement for
the mirror is the base set of bits, beyond that it is rsync,
mirror-manager and, talking with the Infrastructure folks. The
important requirement is having the will to maintain it for atomicity.
Hopefully that work will also help to convince ISPs in country to
setup mirrors (or at-least Intelligent Mirror) within their network
for their Internet services users. At the Fedora 12 test day I
realized that to increase userbase and QA contribution from within
India, its first of all important for us to increase the number of
mirrors.
To increase the QA contribution, we need more people doing QA on
existing release, honing their skills and, moving to rawhide. It is a
fact of life that contributing to QA on rawhide requires at least
another machine (to be able to have a single sane and, a single broken
box) - most students will not be having that. On the other hand, they
do have computers in their labs and, figuring out a way to have QA jam
sessions would help them appreciate and, learn about the OS bits
better. I have always had hopes that the college installation fests
would progress to some QA activities too - sadly, all of them seem to
be very content doing nothing more than installations.
--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
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