[Mageia-sysadm] Bittorrent setup planning proposal

Sun Feb 20 16:31:31 CET 2011

Michael Scherer skrev 15.2.2011 14:33:
+> Hi,
+>
+> so it seems some people ( see blog comments among others ) have asked
+> for a bittorrent setup.
+>
+> Since I think we have more urgent things to do or the Alpha 1, I would
+> propose that we target next month for that ( ie alpha 2 ), and so that
+> we have a working prototype of the setup for the 7 march 2011.
+>
+> So the questions are  :
+>
+> - is the deadline ok ?
+>
+
+I guess we can try.
+
+> - where do we set this ?
+>    ( ie, which dc, which server, based on what criteria ). I would say
+> rabbit, but maybe dedibox is not ok with that. I would also say "not
+> valstar", for security reason.
+>
+
+Yeah, valstar is off limits...
+I think rabbit is ok
+
+> - who is volunteer for this ?
+>
+
+> being volunteer mean :
+> - setting the bt server with puppet ( and so deciding what to use server
+> side, robust, free software, etc, etc )
+>
+
+Do we know what mdv used ?
+
+> - likely make sure the package is ok on mageia later ( or bribe a
+> packager for doing so )
+>
+
+:)
+
+> - make sure that hosters are ok with the traffic that it will generate
+>     they will all be ok IMHO, but it is better to warn them,
+> communication cannot do much harm.
+>
+
+Do the hosters speak/read/write english?
+
+> - automate this as much as possible ( I would love to have just one
+> command to type to do a release, but we are not there yet I fear ).
+>
+
+That would be nice...
+
+> - recruit a team of people to seed and find a way to distribute them
+> the .torrent, in a open fashion
+>
+
+Do we use rabbit for the initial distribution too ?
+(should we do rsync access for initial fetch for initial seeders ?)
+
+And what kind of "requirements" do we have?
+meaning available bw, torrent running for atleast xx days, and so on...
+
+> - write or help to write a blog post explaining what was done, and
+> documentation, and work with the communication team about that.
+>
+
+--
+Thomas
+