making torrent files more accessable

[Seth Vidal]

On Sat, 16 May 2009, Randolph Bentson wrote:

>
> When Fedora 10 was released I fetched the torrent files and started a
> client which uploaded much much more (about 1 TB) than I downloaded.
> That was the good news, the bad news was that it took most of the
> release day to fetch all the torrent files so that my client could fully
> participate in all the torrents.
>
> I'd like to avoid this delay for the Fedora 11 release. What's needed
> to establish some servers whose sole purpose is to provide the torrent
> control files?  Or, this could be carried one step further by creating a
> zero-level torrent providing only the torrent control files? The control
> file for this could be predistributed and the tracker not enabled until
> the magic moment.
>

In order to receive the release early you need to become an official 
mirror. Go check out the fedoraproject.org wiki on how to become a mirror.

Thank you for setting up your torrent seed, we appreciate it!

-sv