Hello all,

Right now I'm trying to answer a simple question:
Whoever already knows how to do this could configure it.  

In trying to answer the above question I found this long email thread from 1.5 years ago.  Duncan said the following:

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts@googlemail.com> wrote:
That's certainly what we've been planning on, that anyone can run a
mirror, no permissions needed. The issue people have raised is what
about having public mirrors that are used automatically or
semi-automatically by clients.

Are there any updates to this in the last year?  Is anybody running a mirror?

The other reason I've been thinking about this is the scoutess project.  More public testing or continuous integration facilities would require more hardware resources.

  -Ryan