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