New Canadian WWW Mirror

[Ryan Thompson]

Jim Brown wrote to Ryan Thompson:

> I noticed on hubs@ that you also run a cvsup mirror.  Is that
> service adequately advertised on the web site?

Yes; jdp added our site to the masters list in the Handbook at
http://www2.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

> One more note- some of the 'mirror' links refer to
> www.freebsdmirrors.org  (or something like that).  I don't
> think the Doc team maintains that server.  You'll have
> to contact the webmaster.

Good point. Will do.

What would you think of pulling the mirror hosts into a more central
location? We have an MxN problem now (M different pages for mirrors in N
unique languages). What about a single list (or lists for CVSup, FTP,
WWW, rsync, etc) that gets compiled automatically and sucked in by the
various languages? The only problem I can see is that the country
spellings (Canada/Kanada/...) have to be localized, which would take
some doing, unless someone already has a convenient mapping for
CountryCode, Locale -> CountryName.

Thoughts?

- Ryan

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