Bit flip

[Mike McGrath]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, brett lentz wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 13:16 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> >>
> >> So, I'd like to propose we back up the bitflip by at least 4 hours
> >> from release time, perhaps as much as 6.
> >
> > Hrm.  This means we have unlocked mirrors for up to 6 hours before we
> > make the announcement.  This could lead to a lot of confusion and
> > uncertainty about the isos and their validity, something we see whenever
> > a mirror leaks early.
> >
> > Honestly I think we need a vastly different way of getting mirrors to
> > bit flip aside from waiting on random cron jobs to pick up the change.
> >
> > --
> > Jesse Keating
> > Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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> >
>
> Is there any way to make the bit flip a push operation instead of a pull?
>

We've been discussing options on this, everwhere from push, to trigger a
pull to pull less but do it more often.

	-Mike