Fedora Rel-Eng Meeting Recap 2007-JUN-11
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Tue Jun 12 16:52:18 UTC 2007
Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said:
> >You're not doing this *before they get a chance to help*, effectively
> >saying they're a second class delivery method for their users. What's
> >the point of them mirroring for their users if their users are going
> >to use their bandwidth to try and jump on a torrent earlier?
>
> I don't know what you mean by "their users" but if it is say a
> university then they can make it available in their LAN when they have
> the bits and not to the entire world for initial few days before the
> announcement.
>
> What? You're expecting every mirror to reconfigure special access rules
> >based on IP ranges or domain names just because you want to torrent ISOs
> >early? How is that at all practical or sensible?
>
> You misunderstood. See above.
No, I didn't. That comment still applies *exactly the same*. And if you
don't understand that, I'm not sure why I'm having this discussion.
Bill
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