[gentoo-soc] Re: Distfile patching support - Weekly report #5

[Rafael Martins]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Rafael Martins
<rafael@×××××××××××××××××.br> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Quick summary: Improve the performance of the Gentoo Linux mirrors by
> reducing the overall bandwidth load, allowing people to fetch binary
> patches from the mirrors, instead of the full source tarballs, when
> updating some package. This project is partially based on GLEP 25.
>
> The project is ahead of schedule.
>
> == Progress ==
>
> This week I didn't much, I guess. I'm fixing some thing in my scripts
> for the full tree run, that I can't start yet. I was also working on
> my Bachelor thesis and organizing things for FISL[1]. The project is
> yet ahead of schedule though. On the "publicity" side I talked about
> my project at Google OSS Jam São Paulo [2], last thursday, and got
> some nice feedback.
>
> == Next steps ==
>
> Tomorrow I'm traveling to Porto Alegre to represent Gentoo at FISL
> [1]. We'll have a booth there. If you are around, check it out :).
> Anyway, I'll be running the tests from there, and monitoring.
>
> [1] http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/post/google-oss-jam-2011-sao-paulo/
> [2] http://softwarelivre.org/fisl12?lang=en
>

Bah, I messed the references :P
[1] is [2] and [2] is [1].

Thanks!

-- 
Rafael Goncalves Martins
http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/