FC2 release schedule

[Karen Spearel]

Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 2004, Mark Fonnemann wrote:
> 
> 
>>is the absolute devel freeze still today?
>>i.e. is http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/ current?
> 
> 
> Yes on both counts!
> 
> -- Elliot
> I keep committing atrocities in an attempt to learn from my mistakes.
> 
> 

There may be reasons why this is not a good idea that are beyond my 
understanding...many things are...but I wonder if it might not be a 
reasonable idea to start the bittorrent sometime after the ISOs are 
released to the mirrors but before the official announcement.  The idea 
is, of course, to encourage all us eager beavers out here to use the 
torrent whenever possible and thereby reduce the load on the mirrors 
when the ISOs hit.

I suppose there are fairness issues here in that some people cannot, for 
whatever reason, use bittorrent, but if some sizable percentage of 
people who might otherwise not do so but will when offered sufficient 
incentive, those forced to wait will at least benefit from the lower 
mirror load when they do open...and those who do use the torrent will 
have the advantage of the possibly increased number of participants.  To 
this simple mind, it seems like a win-win situation if such a thing were 
possible.

Of course, this presumes the the folks at Duke can get the ISOs with 
enough time before the official announcement to make the effort worthwhile.

KAS