[Gtkradiant] Re: qeradiant.com looking for reliable mirrors

Timothee Besset gtkradiant@zerowing.idsoftware.com
Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:33:01 +0100


Holy cow :-)

Ok I'll do some changes to the files section to put mirror URLs directly 
from qeradiant.com .. thanks

TTimo

At 19:13 20/01/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Tim,
>
>Timothee Besset wrote:
> > I am sending out an email because qeradiant.com is looking for some more
> > mirrors. Has we have announced following the Wolf SDK release, we are
> > planning on releasing a new version of GtkRadiant with a Wolf game pack.
> > Our current download solutions are 3ddownloads.com and ftp.idsoftware.com .
> > both are pretty loaded right now, so I'm looking for some more URLs.
> >
> > Our main problem is that even though the next setup we are going to release
> > is of good quality, it will be a beta, and we are planning to release
> > regular updates after it (being an open source project, a good part of the
> > QA process means sending out builds, gathering feedback and improving).
> > That's why we haven't been looking for more mirrors in the past, to avoid
> > too many outdated versions floating around. So what I'm looking for is a
> > solution where I would have an ftp access to upload to, so that I'm sure
> > the mirror holds the latest version (or any similar system that has good
> > syncing with a main source).
> >
> > Let me know if you can do something :-)
>
>We don't need to do anything, automatic mirrors are already in place :-)
>
>ftp.idsoftware.com (or underworld, actually) is mirrored hourly to the
>master idgames community archive:
>ftp://archives.3dgamers.com/pub/idgames/
>
>Ie. the GtkRadiant directory is at:
>ftp://archives.3dgamers.com/pub/idgames/idstuff/qeradiant/GtkRadiant/
>
>This is a rather busy server but it's mirrored four times a day to:
>ftp://3darchives.in-span.net/pub/idgames/  (which serves up to 2000 users)
>
>and usually once a day to the other idgames mirrors around the world:
>http://www.3dgamers.com/about/archives.html
>
>Additionally, Blue's News mirrors underworld hourly as well:
>ftp://ftp.bluesnews.com/idstuff/
>
>which has an hourly Australian mirror:
>http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/bluesnews/idstuff/
>
>Does that help? :-)
>--
>Frans P. de Vries | fpv@bluesnews.com | Blue's News http://www.bluesnews.com/