Steven Hess wrote:
It was suggested I repost this here. I originally posted it in Project on the openSUSE Discord Server. "I don't know if this is the proper place for this to get attention but I'll post this here anyway. Firstly I want to praise all the people who contribute to the required work to keep Tumbleweed rolling on. The latest snapshot was a huge undertaking and much work was required to make it a success. So thanks to all those people.
That said however many people had a painful experience obtaining this snapshot. For whatever reason there was much timing out and many had to manually ride herd on the dup. I don't think it is an issue of sufficiency of mirrors. I think it has more to do with MirrorBrain. It's just not routing people to the closest and most robust mirror.
'robustness' was never a selection factor :-)
Here on Discord there was much discussion of the multi day difficulty in getting the multi gigabyte snapshot downloaded. Is there something that can be done about this?"
If anyone is going to look at anything, we'll need some more information. For instance, example of Mirrorbrain not picking the right mirrors for people. Timeouts is not something we can do much about. Some example filenames or URLs would also be helpful. Please let us continue this on mirror.lists or heroes.list. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (3.7°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes