[haiku-development] Re: [Vote] Release Schedule

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Urias McCullough<umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I did talk with a Linux Foundation/kernel.org representative at
> OpenSource World and he asked if we thought we would need some help
> mirroring this release. He is willing to gather up a few mirror sites
> for us if we're interested, and provide some advice for our release
> distribution as he has worked with several Linux distributions in the
> past on their release/mirroring strategies, including bittorrent
> seeding, etc.
>
> Let me know if this sounds like a good idea and I'll contact him.

That's pretty cool of him to offer help. +1 on taking him up on that offer.

> We also should go ahead and make use of the new "web seeding" feature
> that many bittorrent clients support. This allows a torrent to
> download from multiple URLs in addition to other seeders in order to
> provide a working solution even if all seeders are offline.
>
> For nightly builds in the future, we can also consider bittorrent and
> mirrors if demand becomes high enough - automating the process if
> possible.

+1 on both of those too.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan

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