[ros-users] request for help: mirroring and better wiki exporting

[Brian Gerkey]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Piyush Khandelwal
<piyushk at cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Pretty much the same thing I was about to ask. If you can provide some
> estimates, I can check with the sysadmins here at texas if they are
> fine with the extra load.

I'll have to defer to Felix on that question.   But, independent of
how many users you have, I would guess that the periodic (currently
weekly) download of the tarballs would dominate the bandwidth usage.
At the moment, the tarballs total 11GB (http://ros.org/wiki_dump/).

For reference, ros.org/wiki got ~750K page views in the past 30 days.

	brian.

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Benjamin Cohen <bencohen2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Brian & Felix,
>>
>> How much traffic can be expected from a mirror when ros.org is working
>> correctly and when it's not?  I would be interested to know how much
>> bandwidth is expected to be used by a mirror server per month?  If it's not
>> too much I'll see about setting one up at penn.
>>
>> -- ben
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Brian Gerkey <gerkey at willowgarage.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> With the recent disk crash and then blackout at Willow, we've all
>>> experienced the pain of not being able to access the wiki.  Hopefully
>>> it'll be a while before the next outage, but it will surely come, for
>>> one reason or another.
>>>
>>> So, two requests for help:
>>>
>>> (1) It would be nice to have another couple of mirrors of the wiki.
>>> Felix Endres maintains one at Freiburg
>>> (http://ros.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/roswiki/), and he documented
>>> his process for setting it up
>>> (http://answers.ros.org/question/977/create-a-rosorg-wiki-mirror).
>>> Any volunteers for hosting more mirrors?  Two in North America (east
>>> coast and west coast), and one in Asia ought to do it.
>>>
>>> (2) The wiki export system is primitive, to say the least.  This
>>> ticket describes some important missing features, and includes the
>>> script that we're using to do the export:
>>> https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3281.  Any volunteers to work on
>>> improving the export system?  E.g., we might be able to use Moin's own
>>> synchronization system (I wasn't able to make it work, but I'm sure
>>> that somebody can).  And there's probably a way to dump the whole
>>> thing into a PDF, which some people might prefer for offline viewing.
>>>
>>>        thanks,
>>>        brian.
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