[14:52] <ikonia> mirror owners could you confirm if you are mirroring all releases all archs in your mirroring or just all active releases for selected archs, the documention on mirroring standards suggests everything for all archs but it not explicit
[15:27] <cjwatson> ikonia: I'm Launchpad staff rather than a mirror owner; but in general mirroring only some releases is significantly more complex because it requires parsing Packages and Sources files to work out which files from the pool are needed, so typical "full" Ubuntu mirrors take everything from their upstream (so amd64 and i386 for mirrors of archive.ubuntu.com, and the other arches for mirrors of ...
[15:27] <cjwatson> ... ports.ubuntu.com).  You can use debmirror if you need to do more selective mirroring than that.
[15:54] <ikonia> I'm of the same opinion, I'd at least want a full release repo - at best the ability to select a release or not, zero desire to exclude things, just curious as the wording is not %100 authoritve, more suggestive