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Hi all, |
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as my name got mentioned i wanted to point out a few things: |
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1) The "inofficial" tracker is atm the only tracker we have. |
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2) It is owned and under control of Stefan Knoblich (stkn@g.o). |
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3) This tracker is currently doing a good job and working without |
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problems and keeps all files and isos we have. |
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4) http://torrents.g.o has a redirect onto that machine |
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(http://tracker.netdomination.org). |
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So as we have a working tracker that could hold all files for the new |
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release and is well known to our user base. |
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I just don't get the point why we are in need of an official one. |
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stkns tracker is atm inofficial for political reasons. |
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When we are now having an official tracker that can not hold all files |
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and an inofficial one that has all files this new situation would |
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confuse our userbase. Atm we use bittorrent to give them more files than |
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our official mirror system can hold. So they can download most files |
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via http/ftp and get additional stuff (or better said if they like all |
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files) via bt. |
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Do we really want to have mirrors and two bt machines? |
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Why don't we set up mirrors for every file (that's the direction into |
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which this idea is going imho) ? |
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What i personally think is the following: |
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Why don't we make the existing tracker an official one? It could be |
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sponsored and maintained by the "Friends of Gentoo / Gentoo e.V.". |
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We would have no problems with space requirements, no problems with |
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confusing our userbase etc. |
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Regards |
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Michael |
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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> I am trying to gather together materials that we wish to release on the |
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> official BitTorrent and also on tantive's BitTorrent. |
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> We have a limited amount of space for the official BitTorrent tracker, |
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> so how we add things is dependent on what we add. I need to get |
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> anything that we want to torrent out as quickly as possible so we can |
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> determine our space constraints. |
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> Currently, I am planning on seeing the i686, pentium3, pentium4, and |
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> athlon-xp PackageCD from x86. I am also hoping I can squeeze in a |
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> ut2004-demo GameCD for both x86 and amd64, but that is entirely |
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> dependent on my time and how quickly I can get one together and working. |
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> pvdabeel: Do you have anything for PPC that you would like released on |
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> BT that isn't going on the mirrors? |
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