How about having a graphical mirror list?

[susmit shannigrahi]

Hi,

Just this idea came into my mind.

How about getting a graphical mirror list instead of or in parallel
with plane text  mirror list at
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/7/ ?
Like this one?
http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/8797.html

We can have different color schemes for different releases.

That should be help human users to select a closer mirror. Because
people usually select from a first few mirrors instead of scrolling
down to their country. (at least I do :) )

And a question to Mike, was that picture auto generated or generated by hand?

Is this possible?



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[Matt Domsch]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 08:30:32PM +0530, susmit shannigrahi wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  Just this idea came into my mind.
>  
>  How about getting a graphical mirror list instead of or in parallel
>  with plane text  mirror list at
>  http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/7/ ?
>  Like this one?
>  http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/8797.html
>  
>  We can have different color schemes for different releases.
>  
>  That should be help human users to select a closer mirror. Because
>  people usually select from a first few mirrors instead of scrolling
>  down to their country. (at least I do :) ) 
One addition that will come in Fedora 9 (I don't think it made it into
F8 but I could be wrong) is that anaconda, the installer, will be able
to use the mirrorlist directly.  This will avoid the user having to
type in a URL for their country at all - it will be automagic based on
GeoIP, just like the updates are.

>  And a question to Mike, was that picture auto generated or generated
> by hand? 
Jef Spaleta and Jima have been working on auto-generating these maps.
http://fedoraproject.org/maps/ for examples.  There's code in the
Fedora admin git tree for them.

Thanks,
Matt


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[susmit shannigrahi]

>  One addition that will come in Fedora 9 (I don't think it made it
> into
>  F8 but I could be wrong) is that anaconda, the installer, will be able
>  to use the mirrorlist directly.  This will avoid the user having to
>  type in a URL for their country at all - it will be automagic based on
>  GeoIP, just like the updates are. 
That should be great..but I was talking about  _manual_ downloads, not
anaconda or yum.
For example when someone wants to download the .iso files et al.
Won't this be more easier than traversing the list?



>  Jef Spaleta and Jima have been working on auto-generating these
> maps.
>  http://fedoraproject.org/maps/ for examples.  There's code in the
>  Fedora admin git tree for them. 
Thanks for the pointer.

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[Mike McGrath]

susmit shannigrahi wrote:
> > One addition that will come in Fedora 9 (I don't think it
> made it into
> > F8 but I could be wrong) is that anaconda, the installer, will be able
> > to use the mirrorlist directly.  This will avoid the user having to
> > type in a URL for their country at all - it will be automagic based on
> > GeoIP, just like the updates are.
> >     
>
>  That should be great..but I was talking about  _manual_ downloads, not
>  anaconda or yum.
>  For example when someone wants to download the .iso files et al.
>  Won't this be more easier than traversing the list?
>     
The graphical map would be cool but I think the "2 clicks to live CD" 
feature we'll be implementing soon is more useful:

https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/74

This will direct users to a geo close mirror without them having to 
figure it out, using GeoIP.

    -Mike

[susmit shannigrahi]

>  The graphical map would be cool but I think the "2 clicks to
> live CD"
>  feature we'll be implementing soon is more useful: 
True and fine ...what if we also change the
"Download from Mirrors: choose a mirror close to you geographically
for a faster download."
to a graphical map ?



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Susmit.

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