Clayton wrote:
When 11.0 was released, the openSUSE servers staggered a bit under the load of so many people hammering away trying to either grab the torrent files or download via ftp. The result was that a large number of us (myself included) waited several days before we were even able to get near the website so that we could download the torrent files and get started with downloading/seeding.
So, my proposal is.... pre-release the Torrent files.
Pre-release ONLY the Torrent files so that those of us who will be Torrenting openSUSE 11.1 can set up our Torrent clients and be ready to go when 11.1 is released and the Torrent tracker is switched "on".
The advantage is that we will not need to join the queue waiting for the website to respond, and we will be able to start helping with distributing this release immediately.
Thoughts? Comments? Is this possible? Reasonable?
I think it's a pretty good idea - I would certainly want to participate. If the torrent files could be distributed by email, those of us with permanent torrent seeders could start a seed very early on. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org