Message-ID: <19184.21725.867856.589972@ridcully.stat.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: 2009-11-03T16:05:49Z
From: Friedrich Leisch
Subject: Removing cran mirrors
In-Reply-To: <f8e6ff050911030746x3817f8c1xa0e7d3bfe76d25b5@mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:46:11 -0600,
>>>>> Hadley Wickham (HW) wrote:
>> Fritz does that from time to time. Note that this is always rather
>> cumbersome: trying to contact maintainers whose addresses do not exist any
>> more and so on.
> I'd be more draconian - if the mirror doesn't update for two weeks,
> just cut it off automatically. If they want to get back on the list,
> it's their problem. It shouldn't be Fritz's problem!
Well, then we would have to create "two classes" of mirrors: If ETH
Z?rich goes down I'd prefer to inform Martin M?chler that there is a
problem rather than cutting off automatically (same for a lot of
others).
But note that the list of "monitored mirrors" is a superset of the list
of "listed mirrors": The first real problem mirror.cricyt.edu.ar is not
in the list of mirrors at http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html (and
what you get when you are online and select a mirror via GUI). Same
for all the other very bad ones. It is a simple Flag "use mirror" in the
master table, which is used both by R itself and the scripts creating
the webpages (which run fully automated).
Best,
Fritz