Dear Publicity team,
Aron Xu, Cc:-ed, has coordinated with DSA and the mirror team the set
up of ftp.cn.debian.org, as before we were lacking such an official
hostname in the ftp.*.debian.org namespace for China.
As you can read below, the lag of upates for Chinese users have been
reduced significantly (from ~48 hours to ~6 hours) and he agrees that
doing some communication around this might help in increasing Debian
awareness in China.
Do you think it would be appropriate to send out a press release about
this? Although I've no strong opinion, I believe it would be nice to
have it and it would be along the same lines of
<http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110302>. If we decide to go ahead,
Aron has already volunteered to translate the text into Chinese
(thanks!)
Cheers.
[ some overzealous quoting follows, for the sake of context ]
----- Forwarded message from Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com> -----
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 00:59:49 +0800
From: Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com>
To: Stefano Zacchiroli <leader@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Debian mirrors in China
Hello Stefano,
I'm now reporting back to you about the result, and thank you ;-)
ftp.cn.debian.org has been set up eventually, pointing to
debian.ustc.edu.cn. We (the mirror admin, Simon, and I) coordinated to
make it a Push-Primary mirror for Debian archive, debian-backports and
debian-cd.
This would significantly reduce the lag time of keeping in sync of
mirrors in China with ftp-master. There was commonly ~48 hours lag,
now we are able to reduce the time to <6 hours for push clients, and
<12 hours for passive syncing mirrors. In the past, users consider the
two major mirrors (mirrors.{163,sohu}.com) are broken because they are
always out of date badly, now we are able to fix this (the sohu mirror
has already catch up the lags after a 2-hour rsync run with ftp.cn.d.o).
They were syncing from ftp/ftp2.de.d.o, ftp.se, ftp.us, ftp.au, because
if they used the geographical nearest mirror ftp.tw.d.o they won't be
able to finish a sync forever.
Next I'll try to help mirror admins in China to make their mirrors meet
our standard, and bring them to be in the official mirror list.
Thanks for your attention!
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 11:25:59AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 04:02:24PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
> > I am writing to you about Debian mirrors in China, sorry for the long
> > interval between I asked on IRC and actually sending this mail.
>
> No problem, thanks for this mail, and sorry if I wasn't available on IRC
> in the various occasions you tried to get a hold of me :-)
>
> > I would like to ask, if we could pick one of them to be
> > ftp.cn.debian.org because it was missing before.
>
> I see that right now there is no such host name, so in principle there
> shouldn't be a problem, assuming the mirrors you mention are already
> official mirrors anyhow. (Although, mind you, I cannot claim I know all
> the requirements to become ftp.*.debian.org.)
>
> > Only Simon Paillard is responding about the "mirror" pseudo-package
> > via BTS, but I still didn't get the essential information to actually
> > make a mirror become ftp.cn.d.o, so I turn to ask you for help.
>
> OK, so, here is the various venues I suggest you to try:
>
> - the official contact point is mirrors@debian.org
>
> - for quicker answer however, I suggest you join #debian-admin on
> irc.debian.org (OFTC) and ask there for guidance. symoon (Simon
> Paillard) is on the channel, as well as other DSA. Mirrors are not
> direct concern of DSA, but they generally care about that and can give
> suggestions
>
> (although I've noticed some very recent activity in at least one of the
> two bug reports you've mentioned, so maybe this is moot now?)
>
> Let me know how it goes and feel free to ping me if nothing happens in a
> week or so.
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7
> zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/
> Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere
> ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela .......| ..: |.......... -- C. Adams
--
Regards,
Aron Xu
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----- Forwarded message from Stefano Zacchiroli <leader@debian.org> -----
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 19:23:51 +0200
From: Stefano Zacchiroli <leader@debian.org>
To: Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Debian mirrors in China
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 12:59:49AM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
> I'm now reporting back to you about the result, and thank you ;-)
Thanks a lot for this report.
Would you mind if I forward your mail to the -publicity list checking
whether people would welcome a press release on this topic? It looks
pretty important to increase the quality of service in Debian mirror for
Chinese users and might be interesting material for them. Do you think
something like that would help increasing Debian awareness in China?
TIA,
Cheers.
--
Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7
zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/
Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere
ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela .......| ..: |.......... -- C. Adams
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----- Forwarded message from Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com> -----
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 01:32:22 +0800
From: Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com>
To: Stefano Zacchiroli <leader@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Debian mirrors in China
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 07:23:51PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 12:59:49AM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
> > I'm now reporting back to you about the result, and thank you ;-)
>
> Thanks a lot for this report.
>
> Would you mind if I forward your mail to the -publicity list checking
> whether people would welcome a press release on this topic? It looks
> pretty important to increase the quality of service in Debian mirror for
> Chinese users and might be interesting material for them. Do you think
> something like that would help increasing Debian awareness in China?
>
Of course it's okay if you'd like to forward it to -publicity list.
If the press release is translated into Chinese and posted on major IT
sites in China, it will help a lot to increase the awareness. And
volunteer to do the translation work and try to contact the media.
--
Regards,
Aron Xu
----- End forwarded message -----
--
Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7
zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/
Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere
ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela .......| ..: |.......... -- C. Adams
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