On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Kevin Vermakevinverma@fedoraproject.org wrote:
I'll appreciate if someone can take up a project to make new-mirror-setups more seamless for new takers of private/public mirrors. Perhaps few interactive scripts, cron configurations, sync scripts in a RPM, or if there is one existing already then I'll love to know about it.
Susmit did demonstrate a "mirror-on-a-box" concept around a year back with rudimentary scripts setting up a mirror. A larger requirement for the mirror is the base set of bits, beyond that it is rsync, mirror-manager and, talking with the Infrastructure folks. The important requirement is having the will to maintain it for atomicity.
Hopefully that work will also help to convince ISPs in country to setup mirrors (or at-least Intelligent Mirror) within their network for their Internet services users. At the Fedora 12 test day I realized that to increase userbase and QA contribution from within India, its first of all important for us to increase the number of mirrors.
To increase the QA contribution, we need more people doing QA on existing release, honing their skills and, moving to rawhide. It is a fact of life that contributing to QA on rawhide requires at least another machine (to be able to have a single sane and, a single broken box) - most students will not be having that. On the other hand, they do have computers in their labs and, figuring out a way to have QA jam sessions would help them appreciate and, learn about the OS bits better. I have always had hopes that the college installation fests would progress to some QA activities too - sadly, all of them seem to be very content doing nothing more than installations.