FS#32940 - {archweb} Mention Reflector on Pacman Mirrorlist Generator page

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Xyne (Xyne) - Sunday, 02 December 2012, 15:54 GMT
Last edited by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Monday, 24 January 2022, 08:18 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Web Sites
Status Closed
Assigned To Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Hi,

Would you please mention Reflector along with a link to its package page [1] on the Pacman Mirrorlist Generator page [2]? I think it would be of interest to most users of the web interface and it is available in [community].

Regards,
Xyne

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/reflector/
[2] https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/
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Closed by  Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Monday, 24 January 2022, 08:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  Let's keep unofficial tools away from the ofifical website. It's fine to link it on the wiki ofcourse.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Sunday, 02 December 2012, 19:24 GMT
Shouldn't reflector be an official Archlinux project to be the case?
Comment by Xyne (Xyne) - Sunday, 02 December 2012, 22:28 GMT
It is a custom tool written specifically for Arch by a TU and maintained in an official repo. It can be labelled as "unofficial" on the page to avoid "official" endorsement if that's really an issue, but given that it is directly relevant I think it should be mentioned.

Besides, it saves the server a little bandwidth by avoiding unnecessary HTML and by caching the results for a few minutes.
Comment by Samantha McVey (samcv) - Thursday, 09 June 2016, 07:03 GMT
I also agree this is something worth considering, although I don't think we should link to its package page, I think it would be far more useful to link to the wiki page, which is well written and easy to follow:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reflector
Comment by mattia (nTia89) - Sunday, 01 October 2017, 14:15 GMT
I don't think reflector should be mentioned in the mirrorlist page
Instead I think it should contain a link to our wiki page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors

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