Comment # 1 on bug 1194196 from Andreas Stieger

Adding some clarification so we know what we are speaking about...

Mirrors not being up to date is expected under normal operations, and the
download.opensuse.org interface is build to compensate and offer the correct
user experience here. The mirrorbrain redirector on download.opensuse.org will
only redirect to mirrors are known to have the most recent files, and will
serve most repository meta files directly. So if one mirror stops syncing your
particular project it is a non-issue as far as the user-visible interface is
concerned - as long as the recommended download.o.o entry point is used.

Further, each mirror can independently determine their replication frequency
and scope. Repositories under home: are simply less interesting for most
mirrors seeking to offer bandwidth (actually often also campus mirrors seeking
to serve directly from their own networks) Repositories for CentOS even less
so. Ultimately this is a matter of space. If you check your other repositories
you will see that some of them are not mirrored anywhere at all.

So in this case we have a repository path which is not generally interesting
for public mirrors, so fewer mirrors of which one has stopped syncing. So lack
of mirrors means a lower likelihood that all of them will be current.

With that being said, what is the user-visible problem or problem that you are
attempting to solve with this report?

a) widehat being listed despite no longer resolving - that is a given
b) any particular mirror NOT accessed through download.opensuse.org ... that is
not an issue unless you see redirects that should not happen
c) ... lack of mirrors? You could attempt to request a top-level project
outside of the home: namespace or serve the files/packages through github
releases / github packages

Anything else?