Mirroring 2.0

Welcome to the rubygems-mirror wiki!

Discussing ideas, implementations, and more for fixing the mirroring pain we have in the rubygems ecosystem here.

Problems

1. There's a lot of little files (over 200,000 gems and gemspecs)
2. Gemcutter has spoiled us, we want our gems to be quickly pushed and installed
3. Pull/round robin mirroring has failed us before (RubyForge used to work this way)
4. The current "mirror" system sucks.

Ways to fix it

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Other things that have been tried

@qrush tried to set up MirrorBrain and it was really, really painful. Didn't get far.