Re: Lowering mirror questions priority to medium
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:31:33PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Christian Perrier wrote:
>
> | Same rationale for mirror host. As long as we check that default hosts
> | for each country are rock solid mirrors, I see no real interest in
> | keeping this question at high priority.
> |
> | Does someone object to this?
>
> If this means what I think it does, then yes :-) Here in Australia,
> most broadband connections are byte-charged when you go above some
> quota. One of the Australian Debian mirrors (ftp.wa.au.debian.org)
> counts as local, free traffic while the other (ftp.au.debian.org) would
> count towards my quota. I suspect that people in other countries may be
> in similar positions. Likewise, some people will have a much faster
> connection to the Debian mirror on their LAN, or provided by their Uni,
> or whatever, and want to use that instead of ${country}.debian.org.
>
> I believe that not prompting for mirror hostname on the default priority
> would be a mistake.
Not to mention ftp.au.debian.org is regularly shite[1].
Does it currently default to what you'd like it to use automatically if the
priority was set to medium? Is this a reasonable compromise? At least users
get the chance to change the mirror, and in (hopefully) most cases, the user
can just accept the default mirror as determined using the countrychooser
info...
Andrew
[1]
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200311/msg02085.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200306/threads.html#00318
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