Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?
Michael and Stefano,
I agree for making GSoC proposal.
Could you write it for client-side apt modification?
I understand we need client side apt optimization.
New apt client can use more optimized protocol than HTTP/FTP.
However,
I think server side mirror selection is still important.
Because, server side mirror selection help for
- initial system installation.
- current and old debian.
- user under NAT
- user under restricted network.
I try to write GSoC proposal for serer-side cdn.debian.net modification.
ARAKI
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:55:47PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:
>> One missing feature is that it needs to send along info about the
>> release/arch its looking for or the returned list needs to be extended
>> to include this info. But otherwise it should be good and working.
>
> Have I looked in the wrong places (i.e. sources.list (5) + the list of
> packages matching ^apt-transport-, as hinted by the former manpage) or
> this is undocumented at the moment? In that case, that's another missing
> feature :), let me know if you want a bug report about that.
>
> If this is undocumented and we lack server support, I wonder how there
> can be users of it (you said it's "not much used"), are those just
> internal users / testers or what?
>
> Regarding the GSoC project, if you think it's a good idea, it would be
> great to have someone volunteering as a mentor and mailing a proposal at
> soc-coordination@lists.alioth.d.o, after having filled in the proposal
> template [1].
>
> Cheers.
>
> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode/ProposalTemplate
>
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