As it says in the summary, the mirrors.mageia.org/status page only reports the status of mirrors with working http connections. Mirrors that provide rsync or ftp connections but with non-working http are being ignored. An example, as I write this, would be ftp.belnet.be. Users who might want to use this mirror, or are using it already, should be able to check its status. If a mirror does have a working http connection, I don't know of any reason to report its ftp and rsync status as well, but then perhaps there is one.
Is it possible to add a status column which could display "up", "down" status or something similar?
CC: (none) => rihoward1
Also, Mageia 6 should be dropped from the status page, since it's no longer supported.
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
In my comment 1 I confused http://mirrors.mageia.org/ with http://mirrors.mageia.org/status. Apologies. http://mirrors.mageia.org/ is the "Mageia mirrors database" page and has listed a number of mirrors which seem to be no longer reachable for one reason or another.
Note that on https://mirrors.mageia.org/ the url column does indicate the status of all of the connections, by the colour of the link. Red for those that are not working.
Personally I'm not able to fix it as current is written in perl. It even seems that is not copied automaticaly (bug 12220 comment 8) from git: http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/infrastructure/mgamirrors/ I would be probably able to rewrite status and mirror list page in php. But I would still need assistance from sysadmins to put the new scripts in proper place.
CC: (none) => filip.komar
From what I can see, it's using php to create/update a database which would be stored either in php-mysqli or php-pgsql. Is phpmyadmin for mysql, or phppgadmin for postgresql available for sysadmins to directly edit the database, and remove the entries for the stale mirrors?