Okay, so? Not sure what you are trying to differentiate here. Rawhide
changes daily, so I expect anybody using rawhide to use some of my bits
per second every day after the sync.
> Example: Release day is often murder for mirrors. I wait at least a week
> before upgrading because it would take hours to download packages via
> preupgrade or yum.
Yeah, but that's release day, not the weeks before release when you are
wanting RCs.
There are also a number of high-bandwidth mirrors these days (such as
kernel.org) that greatly reduce the slowdown during release. IIRC even
my little mirror only really topped out its bandwidth for a couple of
days after the release of F10 (and it wasn't flat-lined; HTTP was still
getting through just fine for the most part).
Sounds like mirrors could/should take RCs then? Push them out and
announce their availability when they show up (24h?)? Negates the whole
bittorrent/jigdo discussion.