Re: Mirrors and code hosting

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2025, at 6:20 PM, Clinton Bunch wrote:
> Distribution: We have 3 mirrors plus the main site. 
> They are all located in Europe failing one of the main reasons for 
> having mirrors, avoiding intercontinental lag.

How much of a problem is this in practice?

> SourceForge has a global 
> network of mirrors using a "broker" to choose the nearest on a single 
> URL. But SourceForge is not command line friendly.

What does "command line friendly" mean, exactly?

> Another is that lists of 
> mirrors always leaves a user wondering which to use and may be seen as 
> antiquated. Maybe we should abandon the list of mirrors on our download 
> page and consider command line friendly alternatives to SourceForge for 
> our repository and web-hosting.

Seems like a lot of work to avoid being "seen as antiquated".

> I know it's a pretty radical suggestion and maybe presumptuous, but I 
> thought I'd bring it up for discussion.

Here is a (surely incomplete) selection of previous discussions
regarding migration of hosting, issue tracking, or both:

https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2014/msg00711.html
https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2015/msg03338.html
https://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2017/msg00000.html
https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2020/msg00696.html
https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2020/msg01071.html
https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2024/msg00824.html

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