[Systems] mirror management system Re: [SoaS] bad soas file name

[David Farning]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> El Mon, 12-10-2009 a las 08:19 +0200, Sean DALY escribió:
>> ideally, we could take the VLC approach, proposing a link which hits
>> the mirror script, since editors and bloggers just copy/paste the
>> first link they find.
>
> With the Mirrorbrain setup just put in place by David, requests to
> download.sugarlabs.org will be bounced to the best available mirror
> automatically.
>
>
>> by the way did the filename change impact the mirrors? Perhaps Marten
>> can tell us?

Sorry for the long post.  Mirror management systems are often
considered black boxes....  Yet they touch many parts of the project.
So it seems important that we all have a basic understanding of how
they work and how the mirror management system will affect our
individual work flows.