On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Robert Schiele wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:20:16PM -0700, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
I have been waiting for this discussion on the list as I feel there is a real problem with mirrors. Especially US mirrors. I have started using the EU mirrors as they are the only real reliable mirrors.
Well, if you have a point to make then _make_ it. You should not wait until someone provides you with the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
I find your attiude and tone offensive and demeaning. Your action item item was to disuss/document the current situation and verify whether others are seeing the problem. On the IRC meeting it was said there was no problems with mirrors. Yet every day I have been on IRC someone has been having problems with mirrors/or reliability. The solution is always use the two great EU mirrors. I have been doing that for my problems and they went away. All this does is provide a quick fix for the current problem. We need to document the problems or situations with the facts. I have seen the US mirrors in non usable states. They can not be used reliably or are of extremely limited use. They may be sync'd improperly. I do not know. I heard/read in the IRC log of the last meeting of how the downloads have been happening. So why are the US mirrors so bad. Why are they unusable? I know the on IRC other are experiencing similar problems. I think the issues/problems need to be documented. So solutions can be found. How this is to be done I do not know. Do we really know the problem/issue?
I personally don't have a point that has not already been said that is appropriate for the list. If I started a thread anyway this would just again result in the infamous situation that those people that post something to almost _every_ thread on this list will post something to the thread with no
What are the issues/problems? All I have seen is a very disjoint way of
looking at them with no one acknowledgeing a problem. The thread would
not necessarily have been like you discribe. I have seen some very good
threads here. And some resolutions to community problems. I feel the
mirror situation is a community problem and needs to be addressed. I have
not posted waiting for it to be discussed as per the action item. I have
not seen a list of the issues. I have seen many discussion of problems on
IRC but no solutions or documented problems. I thought the action item
was to determine on this list what the problems are and document them. So
we do not have the same conflict/discussion of all is well...not it is
not.
This does not get us any where as a community.
Thanks for listening/reading my rant on the situation.
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Boyd Gerber