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While I tend to agree with you on your reasoning, what would you |
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consider a commercial product? |
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For example, many Linux games are volunteer efforts, even though they |
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may have a commercial entity behind the Windows version. Here's an |
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example: America's Army. It weighs in at something like 380MB, but the |
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Linux port is not offered at all from the official mirrors, but rather |
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from volunteer mirrors that Ryan Gordon (icculus) rounded up himself. |
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Would it be in our best interest to take the load off the volunteer |
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servers? I think so. |
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I guess my main concern is that we make a clear distinction between what |
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is commercial and what is not. |
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As for Bioware and Neverwinter Nights, it took them long enough to get a |
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client out, grab it from their servers... ;p |
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On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 08:56, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:42:18PM -0400 or thereabouts, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > yep, nwn, it was a beast to d/l myself. |
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> > is the correct answer to this putting RESTRICT=nomirror ? i thought that was |
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> > client side only ... it hadnt occured to me that it would affect how the |
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> > gentoo distfile mirrors would be created ... |
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> > if that is so i'll add RESTRICT=nomirror to a bunch of games ... many are a |
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> > few hundred megs (mostly q3 mods) ... |
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> We're actually in the process of working out a policy to address these |
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> issues. The current *suggested* proposal is the following: |
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> Per-file size limit: |
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> commercial products > 100MB |
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> non-commercial products > 500MB |
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> The reasoning behind this is that commercial products typically have |
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> resources and funding behind them to offer a fairly robust downloading |
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> experience to their users meaning we can avoid mirroring them ourselves |
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> without impacting our user base to a significant degree. non-commercial |
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> products often don't have the same resources available to them, so we would |
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> continue to mirror all but the largest files in that case. (currently, |
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> there are no non-commercial products in our tree that would be affected by |
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> this cap limit) |
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> Thoughts? |
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> --kurt |
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