[PureOS] Mirrors for PureOS?

[Jeremiah C. Foster]

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On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 14:15 +0000, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi Jeremiah,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. :)  I don't disagree with anything specific in
> your mail but think we should just briefly pause and zoom out here:
> 
> > > > Whilst extremely kind of them, how will this work for our
> > > > users?
> > 
> > For power users we can simply […] 
> > 
> > > Do you mean how do we enable our users to easily take advantage
> > > of
> > > the mirrors? E.g. not having to edit source.list.d/ by hand?
> > 
> > Ideally the 'Software' tool from GNOME might be a good candidate
> > [..]
> > 
> > > > Ask them to alter their sources.list? Are we going to commit to
> > > > providing a CDN of some description?
> > 
> > I intend to speak to […]
> 
> So, again, these are all very sensible replies & solutions and
> furthermore I'm not at all against the conceptual idea of a mirror,
> but I am just wondering whether introducing such infrastructure (with
> all the inherent technical and support overheads) should appear to be
> so high on our priority list right now? :)

Perhaps not so high, but because we have interested parties and the
initial fix is pretty small potatoes, I thought it would be worth
pursuing. I'm happy to have this pushed down a bit on the priority list
as there are other more pressing issues.

Cheers,

Jeremiah
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