What is the fascination with 'spins'

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Jeremy Katz schrieb:
> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 11:28 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:08:15AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> Heh, that's the game we're trying to play here, figure out what goes on and 
>>> what doesn't.  Plus there are countries where DVD hardware/media is still 
>>> vastly more expensive so you have to consider the CD count too, 8 CDs 
>>> anybody?  Mirrors would strangle me if I asked them to mirror 8 CDs, 2 DVDs * 
>>> 3 arches.
>> Yes, we need to start using something like Jigdo to reduce wasted data 
>> duplication.
> Frankly, I see enough bugs where people can't manage to download and
> burn an ISO successfully that I really don't want to see things get
> worse by encouraging something like jigdo.

I'd sometimes would like to see us use jigdo -- e.g. to push out a RC
after test3 and before the actual release. We did that once (FC3) iirc,
but used mainly rsync for similar purposes for it (rsync is probably
also great to fix a image if jigdo did it wrong).

CU
thl