An instruction for mirror operators

[woju]

Could you set up a page for mirror operators with a short instruction? Just that

• we welcome mirrors
• we are happy to provide rsync or HTTP master
• preferred frequency is once per 24 h, but anything up to once per 6-8 h is fine
• for technical accommodations please contact Wojtek or Marek, for website update please contact Andrew
  The truth is we have anonymous rsync master, but we don't want to announce it publicly. And putting authentication in front of that would be a pain for current mirrors.
• anything else?

Probably linked below the mirror list at https://www.qubes-os.org/downloads/, also maybe somewhere around donations/partners for people that can't or don't want to give money but can help by donating bandwidth.

I anticipate there will be more of them coming. Cf. #3056.

Cc: @marmarek

[adrelanos]

Recently forwarded a mirror offer to Marek. He said currently no more mirrors are required. I also think it's good to keep the number low as long as not required. We used to have a similar setup for whonix.org downloads, but it was quite a time effort being wasted since a lot mirrors went down and then a few (round robin lottery) users wondered why downloads are broken.

[adrelanos]

Recently forwarded a mirror offer to Marek. He said currently no more mirrors are required. I also think it's good to keep the number low as long as not required. We used to have a similar setup for whonix.org downloads, but it was quite a time effort being wasted since a lot mirrors went down and then a few (round robin lottery) users wondered why downloads are broken.

[woju]

We could monitor uptime of those and reject the unreliable.

The problem is, a mirror is generally a one-time offer. If we turn down the mirror, they most likely won't come again. We might need them in the future, if we like Qubes to conquer the world.

[woju]

We could monitor uptime of those and reject the unreliable.

The problem is, a mirror is generally a one-time offer. If we turn down the mirror, they most likely won't come again. We might need them in the future, if we like Qubes to conquer the world.