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On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 14:15 +0000, Chris Lamb wrote:

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:

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Whilst extremely kind of them, how will this work for our users?

For power users we can simply […]

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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 [..]

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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? :)

Perhaps not so high, but because we have interested parties and the initial fix is pretty small potatoes, I thought it would be worth pursuing. I'm happy to have this pushed down a bit on the priority list as there are other more pressing issues.

Cheers,

Jeremiah