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

  • From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:35:32 -0700

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:34 AM, PulkoMandy<pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The alpha build will be done on the 9th, so I think it's fine to make
> the official release on the 12th, with the website, all the torrent
> seeds running and all mirror mirrored.

Speaking of torrents and mirrors...

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.

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.

- Urias

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