mirroring downloads of pear.php.net packages

Hi, After today's mortifying down time of more than 24 hours of pear.php.net, I thought it might be time to implement some basic mirroring. After some quick discussions on IRC, this is what we will be doing: The mirroring of pear.php.net will be ONLY: - REST files (http://pear.php.net/rest) - download tarballs .tgz/.tar for each release The mirroring initially will not: - mirror anything else - be a copy of pear.php.net's user interface We will start out with a test mirror at us.pear.php.net (IP 66.79.188.205) provided by Josh Eichorn at bluga.net, and then add a de.pear.php.net mirror (IP 80.237.146.62) provided by Christian Weiske. Mirroring will be a simple rsync of static files directly from pear.php.net every 4 hours, with a simple search/replace of download.pear.php.net in the REST release XML. Additionally, each mirror needs to provide some kind of REST-based web service describing downloads that pear.php.net can use to pull in download statistics on a regular interval. This will be worked out before the mirror goes live. The mirrors will be specified in channel.xml when this happens, and will be manually selected by users: pear config-set preferred_mirror us.pear.php.net for instance. This email is not a call for comments, so much as a "this is what is happening" informational message. A huge thank you to Josh Eichorn and Christian Weiske for so generously stepping up to the plate on this, it is greatly appreciated. Greg