2-clicks-to-LiveCD no longer blocking on mirrormanager

[Matt Domsch]

URLs of the form:

http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Live/i386/F...

now work via mirrormanager redirect magic.  This is basically the full
path to the actual file on the master servers, but will automagically
redirect to a (local) mirror with that file.  This can be used for any
file stored in the master mirror tree.

Hopefully this will un-block the "2-clicks to a LiveCD" feature.  Heck
- it could be 1-click on the front page of fedoraproject.org/ now. :-)

Thanks,
Matt


-- 
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

[Kamisamanou Burgess]

On 9/15/07, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch(a)dell.com&gt; wrote:
>  URLs of the form:
>
>
>
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Live/i386/F...
>
>  now work via mirrormanager redirect magic.  This is basically the full
>  path to the actual file on the master servers, but will automagically
>  redirect to a (local) mirror with that file.  This can be used for any
>  file stored in the master mirror tree.
>
>  Hopefully this will un-block the "2-clicks to a LiveCD" feature.  Heck
>  - it could be 1-click on the front page of fedoraproject.org/ now. :-)
>
>  Thanks,
>  Matt
>
>
>  --
>  Matt Domsch
>  Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
>  linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
>
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>  
A good place for that link would be the first item in the "Get it Now" list.

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Sayonara,
Kamisamanou Burgess
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[Craig Thomas]

On 9/15/07, Kamisamanou Burgess <jdub2005(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On 9/15/07, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch(a)dell.com&gt; wrote:
>  > URLs of the form:
>  >
>  >
>
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Live/i386/F...
>  >
>  > now work via mirrormanager redirect magic.  This is basically the full
>  > path to the actual file on the master servers, but will automagically
>  > redirect to a (local) mirror with that file.  This can be used for any
>  > file stored in the master mirror tree.
>  >
>  > Hopefully this will un-block the "2-clicks to a LiveCD" feature.  Heck
>  > - it could be 1-click on the front page of fedoraproject.org/ now. :-)
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Matt
>  >
>  >
>  > --
>  > Matt Domsch
>  > Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
>  > linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
>  >
>  > --
>  > Fedora-websites-list mailing list
>  > Fedora-websites-list(a)redhat.com
>  >
>  https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-websites-list
>  >
>
>  A good place for that link would be the first item in the "Get it Now" list.
Hi All,

That is just what I thought so I went ahead and added 4 links and
attached the file to the ticket for review:

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

Where _do_ we want these links?

--
Craig

[Rahul Sundaram]

Matt Domsch wrote:
>  URLs of the form:
>  
>
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Live/i386/F...
>  
>  now work via mirrormanager redirect magic.  This is basically the full
>  path to the actual file on the master servers, but will automagically
>  redirect to a (local) mirror with that file.  This can be used for any
>  file stored in the master mirror tree.
>  
>  Hopefully this will un-block the "2-clicks to a LiveCD" feature.  Heck
>  - it could be 1-click on the front page of fedoraproject.org/ now. :-) 
This is wonderful. Could you make this work for the release notes too? 
Those are frequently inaccessible during the release time from the 
amount of traffic. It would nice to share the load here.

Rahul

[Matt Domsch]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 06:45:09PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Matt Domsch wrote:
>  >URLs of the form:
>  >
>
> >http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Live/i386/Fedora-7-Live-i686.iso
>  >
>  >now work via mirrormanager redirect magic.  This is basically the full
>  >path to the actual file on the master servers, but will automagically
>  >redirect to a (local) mirror with that file.  This can be used for any
>  >file stored in the master mirror tree.
>  >
>  >Hopefully this will un-block the "2-clicks to a LiveCD" feature.  Heck
>  >- it could be 1-click on the front page of fedoraproject.org/ now. :-)
>  
>  This is wonderful. Could you make this work for the release notes too? 
>  Those are frequently inaccessible during the release time from the 
>  amount of traffic. It would nice to share the load here. 
The directory pub/fedora/web on the master servers contains the home
page content, exactly so it can be distributed to the mirrors.  The
release notes size isn't so great that mirrors would object to those
being added under this same directory.

The normal URL for the release notes is at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/ and subdirs thereunder.
If the release notes content is posted to the mirrors to show up under
pub/fedora/web, I expect we could make docs.fp.o/release-notes do a
redirect to http://download.fp.o/pub/fedora/web/release-notes.
There's a propogation delay though; you can edit content on docs.fp.o
and it's live nearly immediately; once you're doing http redirects to
mirrors, you need ~24 hours to make sure the updated content has
gotten to the mirrors.  Right now there are 13 mirror servers carrying
this content globally.

Thanks,
Matt

-- 
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

[Matt Domsch]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 10:48:49AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
>  URLs of the form:
>  
>
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Live/i386/F...
>  
>  now work via mirrormanager redirect magic.  This is basically the full
>  path to the actual file on the master servers, but will automagically
>  redirect to a (local) mirror with that file.  This can be used for any
>  file stored in the master mirror tree.
>  
>  Hopefully this will un-block the "2-clicks to a LiveCD" feature.  Heck
>  - it could be 1-click on the front page of fedoraproject.org/ now. :-) 

I know Ricky (IIRC) made a pass at this.  Any chance such could be
made live for Fedora 7 now, and then updated for Fedora 8 in a few
weeks?  Like Mike, I feel that the lack of a one-click download on the
front page has cut into our download numbers significantly.

Thanks,
Matt

-- 
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

[Mike McGrath]

Matt Domsch wrote:
>  On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 10:48:49AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
>    
> > URLs of the form:
> >
> >
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Live/i386/F...
> >
> > now work via mirrormanager redirect magic.  This is basically the full
> > path to the actual file on the master servers, but will automagically
> > redirect to a (local) mirror with that file.  This can be used for any
> > file stored in the master mirror tree.
> >
> > Hopefully this will un-block the "2-clicks to a LiveCD" feature.  Heck
> > - it could be 1-click on the front page of fedoraproject.org/ now. :-)
> >     
>
>
>  I know Ricky (IIRC) made a pass at this.  Any chance such could be
>  made live for Fedora 7 now, and then updated for Fedora 8 in a few
>  weeks?  Like Mike, I feel that the lack of a one-click download on the
>  front page has cut into our download numbers significantly.
>     
I'll leave this call up to ricky but what we have in the git repo right 
now is very close to ready, Ricky what do you think?

    -Mike

[Ricky Zhou]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 02:02:30PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
>  Matt Domsch wrote:
>  >I know Ricky (IIRC) made a pass at this.  Any chance such could be
>  >made live for Fedora 7 now, and then updated for Fedora 8 in a few
>  >weeks?  Like Mike, I feel that the lack of a one-click download on the
>  >front page has cut into our download numbers significantly.
>  >  
>  
>  I'll leave this call up to ricky but what we have in the git repo right 
>  now is very close to ready, Ricky what do you think? 
I think the script should
pretty much be ready now, and I should have
the syncStatic.sh and Apache config changes ready to checkin to puppet
CVS.  

As for the download links, ivazquez has been working on an updated
get-fedora page with direct links to torrent.fp.o - how do think we can
nicely incorporate direct download links there as well?

Ricky

[Rahul Sundaram]

Ricky Zhou wrote:
>  On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 02:02:30PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > Matt Domsch wrote:
> >> I know Ricky (IIRC) made a pass at this.  Any chance such could be
> >> made live for Fedora 7 now, and then updated for Fedora 8 in a few
> >> weeks?  Like Mike, I feel that the lack of a one-click download on the
> >> front page has cut into our download numbers significantly.
> >>  
> > I'll leave this call up to ricky but what we have in the git repo right 
> > now is very close to ready, Ricky what do you think?
>  I think the script should pretty much be ready now, and I should have
>  the syncStatic.sh and Apache config changes ready to checkin to puppet
>  CVS.  
>  
>  As for the download links, ivazquez has been working on an updated
>  get-fedora page with direct links to torrent.fp.o - how do think we can
>  nicely incorporate direct download links there as well? 
I think I referred to some of the other websites which do this before 
but see

http://software.opensuse.org/
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

If you get to the front page you would see prominent banners instead of 
just a download link which would lead you to a set of choices that can 
be the following

Which spin? - Officially spins explained in this page. Other community 
spins explained in http://spins.fedoraproject.org

Arch? (x86 by default)
Type of installation? (CD/DVD/Network with Live CD's by default)
Location? (no default)

Rahul