On Sat, 3 May 2008, Matt Domsch wrote:
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 08:53:06PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
> > A team of folks took videos of various talks at Linux Fest Northwest.
> > They want to offer direct downloads as an alternative to the flash based
> > streams available at ustream.tv. I have tentatively offered (with
> > stated caveat that Infrastructure had to approve) hosting space on the/a
> > torrent server for these videos.
> >
> > I don't yet have an estimate on the total size, but there are 12~
> > videos, all somewhere around an hour in length. It may be a while yet
> > before they're all re-encoded into our preferred format (.ogg) but I
> > wanted to get the ball rolling here.
> >
> > Is this something Fedora (Infrastructure) would be willing to provide?
>
> So the question is does Fedora offer hosting space for linux conventions
> and things not directly related to Fedora? I'd be curious to hear what
> others say.
In general, I would love it if we could. I don't believe we have the
resources in place today to be able to do so effectively.
In my mind, we need:
1) additional people in the infrastructure team to help with the admin
side of this.
1a) there's a need for existing infrastructure team members to serve
as sponsors/mentors. I'm sorry I haven't had the time to do more
of this lately.
2) an assessment of the real compute/storage/bandwidth needs for this
idea. We're notoriously bad at estimating the amount of storage a
given idea will actually need in production.
3) significant donations (cash, equipment, hosting, ...) to realize
these needs.
I'm hoping to get a big 3) that will help with 2) in the not too distant
future. What I had envisioned (if we can get it) is a 3 tier distribution
system.
1) the primary content on our primary mirror. This will typically be
DIRECTLY related to Fedora the OS or EPEL.
2) Secondary content. This would be a place for us to re-distribute the
hosted tarballs, spins, videos, etc. This is all that value-added stuff
that will behave just as our primary mirror (with a series of other
mirrors grabbing content)
3) archives. Far less expensive then the first 2 but does have a lot of
storage requirements.
As of this morning we actually have 1 and 3[1] taken care of. I'm hopeful
2 will be more visible in the next couple of months though, since it is a
donation, I don't want to start making changes and things in case it falls
through.
I didn't really have a mirrormanager plan for 2 yet though.. mdomsch, any
ideas?
-Mike