Re: How to coordinate web team for security releases?

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>>>> What I need is a non-public list for this, so that I can ask for web site
>>>> changes 3-4 days ahead without it becoming a news item.
>>> I think Dave's idea of -packagers works fine, there should be enough overlap.
>>>
>>> What we also need is a better way to update the mirrors in a timely manner.
>> I don't see how we can do that unless we persuade all the mirrors to
>> update more than once per day, which I doubt the larger ones will do.
>>
>> I guess we could consider reducing the max age of a mirror when we
>> generate the selection pages - but that will mean mirrors will be
>> enabled and disabled at different parts of the day for a few hours at a
>> time.
>
> how much traffic are the mirrors handling on average btw ? maybe we do
> not actually need 70+ or so offical mirrors and reducing that number
> significantly to the ones that can get updated more often might help a bit.

I have no idea. You could probably work out an average by correlating
file sizes with downloads logged by the tracker, but that'd take a bit
of patience.

Regards, Dave.