Re: [tdf-mirrors] Providing localized LibreOffice

Am 30.09.2010 um 20:48 schrieb Thorsten Behrens:
> we plan to provide a localized LibreOffice as a next step, via
> the tried and true language packs. Depending on how many languages
> we build (some 60-70 are in a pretty good shape), that amounts to
> roughly 1 extra GB per platform - summing up to 4 extra GB for our
> current set of supported platforms.

Actually, there is interesting room for improvement here (over the
OpenOffice.org way of distributing language packs). We can make rsync
modules that include only certain languages. There is no reason to sync
Polish language pack to India, and vice versa. Instead, we should
distribute langpacks that are actually requested in the region that the
mirror serves.

The only thing we need is that one or two of us sit down and make kind
of a table with languages and regions where they are used, in rough
relation to where they are mirrors. Not a very difficult task.

That wouldn't only save disk space on mirrors, it would also massively
reduce sync times.

(Taking this one step further, one could automate that -- using download
counters to generate rsync filelists for each mirror, containing exactly
that stuff that is requested from there. I'd love to implement that, but
it'd need at least a week, that I don't have...)

Anyway, a more static approach will work fine as well, I guess, since
languages don't change frequently, and mirrors don't usually  move
around ;-)

Thank you all for your support!
Peter
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