Proposal: retire bittorrent

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 22:23 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:55 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >
> > Heck, I'd be willing to accept ANY bittorrent server that can be both
> > tracker and primary seed and doesn't require a special apache module to
> > do it.
> >
> > The biggest virtue of the old bittorrent client is that it is simple,
> > stand  alone and while not fancy, it is straightforward to understand.
> 
> Why not look into using Web/HTTP seeding rather than running a client
> for the initial seed?  The only downsides that I know of so far:
> 
> 1) Not supported in rtorrent
> 2) Transmission doesn't apply any bandwidth limits to Web/HTTP seeds
> 

Following up late on this, sorry.

The seed is less of an issue than the tracker. Is there a solution to
that?
-sv