RCs for Everyone (was One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release)

[Michael Cronenworth]

Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> said:
>> I'd have to download from mirrors, 
>> which is costing mirror bandwidth.
> 
> You've mentioned this a couple of times; why do you think mirrors
> mirror?  If I didn't want people to consume bandwidth downloading
> rawhide, I wouldn't mirror rawhide.
> 

Sorry, I wasn't referring to total bandwidth over time, but bandwidth 
per second.

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.