[fab] Fedora Core Updates -- "respins"

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 07:42 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> 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.

Torrent is definitely an option and if there are people willing to
becareful we can setup things to let other people make the torrents.
Just like we did w/some of the gnome people.

-sv