Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting

[Jesse Keating]

On Sunday 03 June 2007 14:32:26 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Torrent only release
> --------------------
>
> 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?
>
> The advantage is that we won't suffer as much from infrastructure and
> mirror problems with the mad rush in everybody trying to get it at the
> same time. Not sure if this has any disadvantages.

IIRC the last time we discussed this the mirrors felt rather jilted by it and 
wondered why they provide a service and why they couldn't just open when they 
had the bits ready.  We set a release date on purpose and coordinate things 
on purpose.  Releasing parts earlier than others just doesn't make sense to 
me and creates a kind of chaos much less controlled than that of a timed and 
coordinated release.  However I'll discuss it again with more people if you 
show up at the meeting to talk about it.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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