FC7 plan comments

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 14:58 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 
> 12. rpm/yum enhancements
> 
> Lack of decent pipelining seems to continue to hurt here.  IMO yum
> should communicate with a download thread in the background.  This
> thread would be responsibile for keeping HTTP pipelines full where
> possible, even to the extent of connecting to another mirror _while_ a
> connection to an existing mirror is plodding along.
> 

In all of the various reports I've gotten of speed issues with yum very
few of them have said we need to complicate the process with a
background downloading thread in order to help it. In fact, given that
we are communicating to multiple servers and we use keepalive it isn't
really a big issue on the download.

> 19. Move to syslog-ng
> 
> DANGER WILL ROBINSON, possible patent problems:
> http://bazsi.blogspot.com/2006/07/thoughts-on-patent-system.html

Why didn't this come up when syslog-ng was brought into extras many
moons ago?


-sv