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Re: state of the cdrom mirrors report



On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:30:32AM +0800, Andrew Shugg wrote:
> Joey Hess said:
> > One other thing I could do is change the intro text to something like..
> > 
> >    Mirrors listed below in <b>bold</b> have recently been verified to
> >    contain at least CD image #1 for the i386 architecture. Mirrors not
> >    listed in bold may be out of date or down.
> > 
> > And list everything, with the known-good ftp ones only in bold.
> 
> I think that's a good idea.

Me too, except that users won't read the explanatory sentence (really,
they won't), so it'd probably be better to repeat the status
information for each mirror: The mirror name is followed by one of
"<b>up to date</b>", "out of date" and "status unknown".

Cheers,

  Richard

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