Hi Jeremiah,
Thanks for your reply. :) I don't disagree with anything specific in your mail but think we should just briefly pause and zoom out here:
Whilst extremely kind of them, how will this work for our users?
For power users we can simply […]
Do you mean how do we enable our users to easily take advantage of the mirrors? E.g. not having to edit source.list.d/ by hand?
Ideally the 'Software' tool from GNOME might be a good candidate [..]
Ask them to alter their sources.list? Are we going to commit to providing a CDN of some description?
I intend to speak to […]
So, again, these are all very sensible replies & solutions and furthermore I'm not at all against the conceptual idea of a mirror, but I am just wondering whether introducing such infrastructure (with all the inherent technical and support overheads) should appear to be so high on our priority list right now? :)
Best wishes,