RCs for Everyone (was One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release)

[Michael Cronenworth]

Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> Okay, so?  Not sure what you are trying to differentiate here.  Rawhide
> changes daily, so I expect anybody using rawhide to use some of my bits
> per second every day after the sync.
> 
>> Example: Release day is often murder for mirrors. I wait at least a week 
>> before upgrading because it would take hours to download packages via 
>> preupgrade or yum.
> 
> Yeah, but that's release day, not the weeks before release when you are
> wanting RCs.
> 
> There are also a number of high-bandwidth mirrors these days (such as
> kernel.org) that greatly reduce the slowdown during release.  IIRC even
> my little mirror only really topped out its bandwidth for a couple of
> days after the release of F10 (and it wasn't flat-lined; HTTP was still
> getting through just fine for the most part).
> 

Sounds like mirrors could/should take RCs then? Push them out and 
announce their availability when they show up (24h?)? Negates the whole 
bittorrent/jigdo discussion.