Fwd: An offer to quickly seed torrents.

[Chris Halsall]

Hello Jesse et al.

But, with respect, let me please argue that just because the source
torrents are the least popular, doesn't mean they're the least
important.

For example, you currently have 27 people trying to download the DVD
ISO, and nine trying to download the CD ISOs.  These have been seeding
for several days now, and are still expected to take another day, and
another three days, respectively.

I am offering 40000 kb/s of bandwidth to serve these, along with any
other Fedora torrents you'd like distributed.

Again, I am offering.  Are you interested?

I'd be happy to sit on an IRC channel, and will monitor when I can.
Or, if you can send me an e-mail with an FTP/HTTP/RSYNC path to access
these files when they become available, I'd be more than happy to
assist.

Please advise.

Thanks and regards.

-Chris

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 13:12, Jesse Keating  wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 12:13 -0400, Chris Halsall wrote:
> > Would you be interested in this?  If so, how might I have HTTP, FTP or
> > RSYNC access to these and future files?  Or, would there be a way to
> > give preference to these machines through the torrent (as in, give
> > these two machines preferential and higher bandwidth)?  Or, I could
> > create an FTP account for you to push the files to me.
>
> The best way is to be available on #fedora-admin the day of the expected
> snapshot or other such release.  I chat with folks there about where to
> get the isos from and when they'll be hitting the torrent.  It all
> happens fairly fast and staggered, so it's best to have an interactive
> communication process.
> > Please let me know.  Right now the ...source-CDs are expected to take
> > yet another couple of days to complete.  In my mind, the sources are
> > the best thing to get into the hands of capable users.
>
> Sadly our users don't think so.  The source isos are by far the least
> popular torrents we put out.
>
> --
> Jesse Keating
> Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
> identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 13:37 -0400, Chris Halsall wrote:
> Hello Jesse et al.
>
> But, with respect, let me please argue that just because the source
> torrents are the least popular, doesn't mean they're the least
> important.

I don't necessarily disagree, I was just pointing out that they aren't
very popular in comparison to the others.
> For example, you currently have 27 people trying to download the DVD
> ISO, and nine trying to download the CD ISOs.  These have been seeding
> for several days now, and are still expected to take another day, and
> another three days, respectively.
>
> I am offering 40000 kb/s of bandwidth to serve these, along with any
> other Fedora torrents you'd like distributed.
>
> Again, I am offering.  Are you interested?

I never said I wasn't interested.
> I'd be happy to sit on an IRC channel, and will monitor when I can.
> Or, if you can send me an e-mail with an FTP/HTTP/RSYNC path to access
> these files when they become available, I'd be more than happy to
> assist.
>
> Please advise.

IRC is best, I'll forget to email and often we pre-seed the rsync paths
with images that are not quite final, but the final images will result
in a small rsync fixup.  I go by 'f13' on freenode .
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