HI,

As a quick update on the mirroring we have several new mirrors listed. I have recently cleared listed mirrors which were out of date by more than a year. There are four mirrors fully functional. Two (Japan and Sao Paulo) appear to be up to date but is not reporting correctly. (Documentation of how to fix this at: http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors#Make_timestamp_available_to_the_ros_wiki)

There are several more mirrors listed which have not been updated, however they do not have listed contact information. (Freiburg, Barcelona, Philadelphia, Austin) If you are the maintainer please add your contact info to the wiki page and look at updating the syncronization method.

We'd like to clean up the systems so that all the listed mirrors will have status reporting for easier visibility to users.

Tully

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote@osrfoundation.org> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

As predicted in my previous email we have now also upgraded the wiki dump to use rsync. The new instructions are available at: http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors

An incremental update can be done now in less than a minute.

Tully

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote@osrfoundation.org> wrote:

Hi,

This is a message to maintainers of ROS mirrors. We have updated the infrastructure to support mirroring of the API documentation from a tarball download to an rsync invoction. The new method takes significantly less bandwidth, processing, and diskspace to maintain the mirrors.

The updated instructions have been posted on the wiki http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors You will need to replace the download and unpack command with a single rsync command.

Due to the improved performance for both the source and downstream mirrors I expect to switch the main wiki mirror over as well in the near future. I will send a follow up message about that too.

Tully