Which mirrors get selected to be listed in the release announcemenmts?

[Mark Schouten]

On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 00:31 +0200, SWITCHmirror Admins wrote:
> In the recent Release Candidate announcement only a few mirrors were 
> listed. Why were they chosen to be listed?
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2008-October/000115.html

As far as I know, Ubuntu has a script that checks the mirrors for the
latest iso's that should be available. I guess they copy-pasted that
list in the email. In the real release, they usually redirect to
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download and not to specific mirrors.
The list at getubuntu is automatically generated from the results of the
mirror checker.

> BTW: Did you recently got any feedback to your mails to 
> mirrors at ubuntu.com? I haven't seen any to my requests.

It seems that responses from the Canonical mirror team are very hard to
get. It usually helps (although it shouldn't make any difference) to go
to #ubuntu-mirrors on freenode where some Canonical employees are too...

Regards,

Mark Schouten
nl.(archive|releases)