Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 06/03/2007 09:45 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:

>> Torrent only release
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>>
>> I remember this was discussed before but when a new release is made and 
>> we are waiting for the mirrors to sync why not do a torrent only release 
>> immediately?
>>     
>
> For this release, it would have been particularly bad to release it
> before the mirrors had at least synced the new layout.  People would
> instinctively have done 'yum update' and had yum report that it couldn't
> find repodata from the mirrors.
>   
FWIW: I know tons of mirrors - even among those listed at 
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist - who are still not 
accessible due to the new layout.
A torrent would have bypassed this problem. And yum update is still not 
accessible for those who - like me - are still at FC6.