Re: Manuals and Spiders

> > Even I feel that it makes sense to have this on all mirrors. We can do a > > lot of things other than just mirror redirection with an ip-to-country > > db - The events from his country would come on top - the download links > > from his country would come on top etc. Its only going to help improve > > the browsing experience. Also, there is absolutely no disadvantages of > > having this on all mirrors. So there is no reason as to why we should > > not implement it all across the board. > > But I see one disadvantage... when a mirror in a country is not doing so > well (speed, or blackouts) you are forced to use that mirror if you > decide it automatically... and what if I want to use the 2nd mirror in a > country for example? I think there should be a way to override the > automatic mirror selection to prevent these problems. To clean it up, first of all, we are not going to add any automatic redirecion or selection. We will bring up the mirrors in the download list in the same country, we will print out something on the frontpaga, advising the user to use a mirror from his own country, etc. We are not going to do any automatic redirection for now. We can also do event filtering based on the user's country, which would be cool on all mirrors. :) So we will test this service with some convinient things, but not with anything forcing users to use mirror sites. Goba