Dear List Members,
Does anyone know if the WikiMedia Foundation plans to support Metalink
or SPDY for its dump files and/or image files? See RFP references
below.
WP-MIRROR downloads dump and image files to build a mirror of a set of
wikipedias. WP-MIRROR 0.5 is feature complete. I am now looking for
ways to optimize performance (i.e. reduce mirror build time). Were
the WMF to support the above two protocols, downloads would be faster
and require less time spent on validation.
Sincererly Yours,
Kent
On 12/29/12, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello! I'm sorry, but I don't know the answer to these questions;
> perhaps you could email the dumps mailing list
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xmldatadumps-l ? My
> apologies.
>
>
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Engineering Community Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 6:14 AM, wp mirror <wpmirrordev(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Sumana,
>>
>> 1) Metalink. Does the Wikimedia Foundation have any plans to support
>> metalink for either its dump files or its image files?
>>
>> Documentation:
>> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5854>, "The Metalink Download Description
>> Format"
>> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6249>, "Metalink/HTTP: Mirrors and Hashes"
>>
>> 2) SPDY. Does the Wikimedia Foundation have any plans to support SPDY?
>>
>> Documentation: <http://www.chromium.org/spdy>
>>
>> 3) WP-MIRROR. We last communicated 2012-01-06 in regards to WP-MIRROR.
>>
>> Status: WP-MIRROR 0.5 is `feature complete', and works
>> `out-of-the-box' for the GNU/Linux distributions: Debian 7.0 (wheezy)
>> and Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal).
>>
>> Future: Attention is turning towards performance enhancement and
>> porting to other distributions.
>>
>> Homepage: <http://www.nongnu.org/wp-mirror/>
>>
>> Please give it a try. Feedback is most welcome.
>>
>> Sincerely Yours,
>> Kent
>