[GRASS-user] GRASS mirrors

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a quick question: I was looking for a list of existing mirrors, but I couldn't find any on
> the new site - only on the old one (e.g. http://ludique.u-bourgogne.fr/grass/intro/general.php) ?
> Is the mirror selection done automatically when downloading?

Rainer

all the old mirrors went out of sync with the switch to the CMS.
Pawel Netzel set up a new system for mirroring even the CMS
and turn it into a rsync master as before. See

The original plan was to have only the GRASS CMS at OSGeo
and the mirrors copying only the software and data files.
Pawel showed that also a full CMS cloning is possible (PLEASE
don't all now clone the CMS, it will bomb it out!!).

Due to my (ongoing) hospital stay I was not able to manage that
any more, hence incomplete.
I am not entirely convinced that the CMS should be cloned around
the globe. But no strong opinion yet.

Maybe some *strategic* mirrors in some countries are better than
maximising the clones (which ruins the page ranking and dilutes
the branding efforts when a mirror picks a higher ranking than the
master site as it happened before).

Markus

PS: In a while I'll be more active again.