Miror management - downloads and users

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 20:00 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> When we announced the FC6 statistics milestone of a million users, it 
> was described as the amount of downloads in many places. This widespread 
> confusion even internally in Red Hat is probably many software projects 
> like say Firefox usually advertise their download rates. One way to 
> avoid this is provide both download and user estimates except that we 
> dont really have download numbers.
> 
> We could ask each of the mirrors to send us the data but that is a bit 
> tedious and mirrors might not participate. A better way might be a 
> mirror list designed to allow us to keep tab of the downloads. sf.net 
> for example has a web page that is not a static list of mirrors but a 
> web page with a round robin system. We could do something like that or 
> geo ip based page which suggests the mirrors near to them. I dont think 
> we would be able to know partial downloads with this but it allows us a 
> more accurate estimate of much of these downloads actually translate 
> into users. Comments?

those web page things work not at all with automatic downloading tools.
For example: yum.

how about we continue with what Matt Domsch has been working on and we
evolve the set of data we have.


-sv