Re: Tracker "not authorized" for lenny_di_beta1 torrents

[Mattias Wadenstein <maswan@acc.umu.se>]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Frans Pop wrote:

> On Thursday 20 March 2008, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
> > I can authorize them at the tracker, but I don't have the diskspace
> > curerntly to seed them (there is only space for the current stable
> > release and one more batch, we gave priority to the weeklies). Would the
> > tracker without seeding from my part be useful?
>
> The Beta release is listed as the first option on the D-I page [1] for
> people wanting to install lenny.
> ATM the weeklies are even not listed at all to "encourage" people to use the
> Beta. The weeklies will be added back on the page after two weeks or so.

Ok, I didn't know that. I just asked when the beta images were published 
if I should drop weekly torrents in favour of betas and got a "no". If 
that's not the case, I can drop the weeklies and mirror up the beta images 
instead.

> In line with the discussion about what (iso) images to produce for lenny, I
> think that as long as diskspace is an issue here, we need to be smarter
> about prioritizing bittorrent seeds too.
> Having popular images seeded for _both_ the beta and weeklies is (at least
> IMNSHO) much more important than having all weekly images for all
> architectures seeded.

For bittorrent seeding it is very easy to mirror down a whole directory 
structure and seed all isos in there.  So this will either easily follow a 
reduction in the full isos available, or require some kind of 
black/white-listing of "good" images to torrent (plus some code).

/Mattias Wadenstein