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

[Jesse Keating]

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 11:26 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Since that's not required, the question needs no answer. The idea is to get the 
> changed files to the users, then assemble them into the RC candidate at the 
> tester's end. Download the changes, including any to the "make an RC" metadata 
> file, then run the tool of choice to generate the install media.
> 
> The nice thing about this is that it's useful day-to-day, if I need to do an 
> install I can build an install ISO which is up-to-date (and has some unique 
> release number or date in the metadata), and not do the dance of installing a 
> bunch of obsolete packages and then updating them, which beats the network and 
> servers a lot more than people who do a lot of installs keeping an rsync 
> current. It would also encourage a "standard" full install, dual layer DVD 
> burners are standard these days, another reduction in load and bandwidth could 
> be had.
> 

I'm afraid I'm not following your logic.  Torrents aren't free, either
the torrent server is going to have to give everybody the bits, or
somebody is going to have to download them outside of the torrent and
seed them for people.

If you have a real proposal here, I suggest you write it up as a wiki
page and bring it to the attention of mroe than just the test list.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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