[gimp-web] content: mirror news update.
- From: Jehan <jehanp src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp-web] content: mirror news update.
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:46:51 +0000 (UTC)
commit b18908b00217781722bdabd5e906cf39730d02bd
Author: Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
Date: Tue Sep 28 16:46:18 2021 +0200
content: mirror news update.
.../2021/2021-09-official_mirror_policy/index.md | 30 ++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/content/news/2021/2021-09-official_mirror_policy/index.md
b/content/news/2021/2021-09-official_mirror_policy/index.md
index 3759a7ed..cb1bbcdd 100644
--- a/content/news/2021/2021-09-official_mirror_policy/index.md
+++ b/content/news/2021/2021-09-official_mirror_policy/index.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ The current list of official mirrors by alphabetical order:
- Artfiles New Media GmbH
- Astra ISP
- CSC - IT Center for Science / FUNET
+- Cu.be Solutions
- dogado GmbH
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
- Göttingen University and Max Planck Society
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ The current list of official mirrors by alphabetical order:
- XMission
The always-updated list is on a dedicated [sponsor page](/donating/sponsors.html).
+Four more mirror requests are being processed at the moment.
💌 **Thanks to all these organizations!**
@@ -76,10 +78,10 @@ mirrors, except you must explicitly ask to be a GIMP mirror:
in particular
- Add `/cc @Jehan` in the request description or in a comment
- Fill the relevant fields
-- If you want a specific name and URL to be shown in the mirror sponsor
- list, please write it explicitly in the report (otherwise we will
- choose whatever organization name and URL seems the most relevant from
- what you wrote down)
+- If you want a specific name and URL to be shown in the mirror [sponsor
+ list](/donating/sponsors.html), please write it explicitly in the
+ report (otherwise we will choose whatever organization name and URL
+ seems the most relevant from what you wrote down)
- Once GNOME is done verifying your organization, they will send you
rsync credentials for syncing your mirror
- There is nothing to do in particular to appear on the
@@ -88,8 +90,8 @@ mirrors, except you must explicitly ask to be a GIMP mirror:
or even weeks at times. So don't worry if your organization name does
not appear immediately!
-🛈 We will check at random intervals that mirrors are updated quickly
-enough and that the data match for obvious security reasons.
+🛈 We programmatically check at random intervals that mirrors are updated
+quickly enough and that the data match for obvious security reasons.
# Technicalities
@@ -111,11 +113,11 @@ Listing only GNOME-verified mirrors has the following advantages:
- Mirrors get rsync credentials, enabling **faster** updates (instead of
through third-parties which may themselves sync from other third
parties, hence avoiding several-day delays).
-- Our team has an accurate list to check when we want to do **security**
- checks for file presence and identity.
+- Our team has an accurate list of mirrors for **security** checks of
+ file presence and authenticity.
- Only verified mirrors are added in the download rotation settings,
thus **contributing** with the bigger chunk of downloads. It is only
- normal for them to be featured more prominently.
+ normal for them to be featured prominently.
**Additionally to mirrors, we would like to thank the GNOME
infrastructure team for their invaluable help!**
@@ -126,13 +128,13 @@ The work on mirrors was a long run backgroung job which was improved by
various people, notably [Michael
Schumacher](https://testing.gimp.org/news/2017/05/15/an-interview-with-michael-schumacher-gimp-administrator/).
-These recent improvements to improve the mirror procedure, making it safer
-for people downloading GIMP and easier for contributors as well as for
+These recent improvements to the mirror procedure, making it safer for
+people downloading GIMP and easier for contributors as well as for
mirror administrators, were done by GIMP maintainer, Jehan of
[*ZeMarmot*](https://film.zemarmot.net/) project. The goal is to
-automatize as much as possible the process to make our list of mirrors
-always up-to-date, but also to verify the mirrors are safe by adding
-verification scripts.
+simplify and automatize as much as possible the process to make our list
+of mirrors always up-to-date, but also to verify the mirrors are safe by
+adding data integrity verification scripts.
We remind that you are [encouraged to crowdfund *ZeMarmot* for
their continuous GIMP
improvement](https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/07/27/support-gimp-developers-sustainable-development/).
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