simple design and consistent look and feel
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at redhat.com
Fri Sep 7 03:03:15 UTC 2007
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
> And we shouldn't
>> be exposing users to the public mirror list? I disagree, especially
>> during release time people need to figure out which mirrors work
>> (many of them get overwhelmed) and the public list is kept fairly
>> accurate because of its checks and when a user gets to a mirror that
>> is too slow for them, they can take a closer look.
>
> This shouldn't be the primary interface. Users should be able to
> select the spin, type of media or installation, arch and region and
> get a url to ISO directly. Only if you opt to see the mirror list
> should you be shown that. The idea behind that is to not confuse
> users with a long list of mirrors and users wouldn't have to know the
> mirror structure to figure out the right location either.
>
Which is why I mentioned:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/74
In my previous email. Besides, our prefered method is still bittorrent
- not that its our users :(
-Mike
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