[fab] Fedora Core Updates -- "respins"

[Karsten Wade]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 14:05 -0500, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
> At the Fedora Unity Project we have begun scripting the creation of 
> updated ISO images for FC5, we are testing what we hope to be our first 
> public release this week.

+1

> We have some questions related to what is acceptable naming, our current 
> images are named the same as the original release with our project name 
> and the date of the snapshot appended, for example the original is 
> FC-5-i386-DVD.iso and our's reflects the may 12 snapshot date 
> FC-5-i386-DVD-Unity-20060512.iso. It was our original goal to call these 
> resulting images "Fedora Core Respins by Fedora Unity." Is this flying 
> to close to the source?
> 
> Second question comes to infrastructure, are there any hardware or 
> bandwidth resources available to the community at large? Using our group 
> as an example, we are a small group that is funding all of our 
> adventures out of our own pockets. Hosting something like and updated 
> ISO would break us and cripple our connections making bittorrent the 
> only option.

Just in case we cannot arrange formal mirror space, I recommend that we
lean hard on Fedora contributors to share some of their own bandwidth.
I pledge at least 100 Kb of torrent upload (about a sixth of my upload
rate).

Then you an use your bandwidth to deliver the ISO via a secret URL
directly to the torrent hosts.

- Karsten
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