Release manager feeds

[Auke Kok]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> On 07/23/2009 11:16 PM, David Mohr wrote:
>>
>> So in particular:
>> - The user submitted message should go first, not the checksums
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>> - Mirrors should not be listed individually, as they are at
>> announcement time most likely not in sync yet.
> 
> Yes... unless the release manager is able to do mini-syncs, which would 
> be cool, but I'm not sure how to implement that securely.
> 
>> IMHO people should
>> always use the www round robin (or whatever it is).
> 
> Well, the problem is that the www round robin only hits be (mocha), 
> ca-us, and tx-us, since they're the only *reliable* full website mirrors 
> we have.  The others are either archive-only or aren't updated as 
> frequently.  (And at release time, ca-us and tx-us likely don't have the 
> file anyway).
> 
> Ideally, we'd have a php script on the main server that 'knows' which 
> mirrors have which files and distributes load evenly, but that might be 
> difficult do to well.

it should be trivial to write a perl script or similar that checks HTTP 
headers and file sizes for the relevant files, as well as the content of 
the checksum files... perhaps I can cook something up later. That can 
just run once an hour until everything is synced.

Auke