Proposal: retire bittorrent
Jon Ciesla
limb at jcomserv.net
Thu Jun 16 12:26:20 UTC 2011
> On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 07:12:56 AM Paul Howarth wrote:
>> I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the
>> reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over
>> instead, please apply on the package database and I'll transfer
>> ownership. Think carefully before you act though!
>>
>> Dead Upstream:
>> ==============
>> Well, not actually dead but upstream has gone closed-source as of
>> version 6 so it's effectively dead.
>
> we use it as the official torrent server for torrent.fedoraproject.org we
> have
> not found any other servers that work totally for us. if we are getting
> rid
> of it we should also look as using something else for the torrents we
> provide.
>
> A nice thing to have is something that we can use with ipv6 and ipv4, the
> server that torrent.fp.o is on has both
I'm not sure that's a nice to have, I'd think that that would be a must,
so we don't have to change again later.
-J
>
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