Comment 4 for bug 1777148

As I understand it, the prober never sets the mirror status (Pending review, Unofficial, Official), and this is intentional: that's a field that's set by mirror admins, and we shouldn't generally have fields that are set both by admins and by automatic processes. For example, that could result in an admin setting the status to Official and then that work being lost because of a temporary network flap.

Instead, the idea is that things consuming the mirror list probably want to check both for mirror status (has this mirror been reviewed?) and mirror freshness (is this mirror up to date?), rather than assuming that mirror status is a proxy for mirror freshness.