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Hi,
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:43 PM, wp mirror wpmirrordev@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone know if the WikiMedia Foundation
"Wikimedia" please. Not WikiMedia. Your nongnu project page needs to fix that too.
Also, it doesn't matter so much if the foundation plans to support it. There's very little chance that either of these things would be done on foundation time and specifically for the dumps any time soon. SPDY has been a topic that's come up several times and if that's ever implemented for the main sites then it's possible dumps could get it too at the same time. But last I checked dumps uses a webserver (lighttpd) that's not used for any other part of the WMF infra. So more than likely it wouldn't get SPDY just because some other part of the infra got it.
The bottom line is the same answer as for creating bittorrents for the dumps: If someone volunteers to do the legwork to get it done then it might be done. If no one takes it and runs with it then it won't happen.
plans to support Metalink or SPDY for its dump files and/or image files? See RFP references below.
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Were the WMF to support the above two protocols, downloads would be faster and require less time spent on validation.
Can you spell out specifically what benefits you would derive from using those protocols? Maybe there's other ways to get the same information that you're looking for?
Also, you know all of these files are available by rsync too right?
-Jeremy