Fedora Torrent seeder plans and future

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:38:48 +0000
Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27/01/12 19:41, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:50:31 +0000
> 
> 
> This may interest you?
> 
> http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/
> 
> It's C, but there maybe someone who can package it for EPEL
> already in Fedora, doesn't need a gui.
> (Licence: Beerware)
> 



Just wanted to clarify something for everyone:

We can make a torrent work. It is not pretty and I don't LOVe using
unmaintained software but we CAN make it function.

This discussion is not about the various techinical implementations of
torrent, really. It's about whether or not we want to spend the time
maintaining something which gives us only about 950 completed iso
downloads a day and is increasingly being blocked and rate-limited in
networks all over the world.


BitTorrent feels like the trailing edge of technology these days and
the incredibly dilapidated state of all the server software to implement
torrents is evidence of that, imo.

We do better with our download servers and mirrors by FAR than the
torrent. 

-sv