RCs for Everyone (was One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release)

[Michael Cronenworth]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> I'm afraid I'm not following your logic.  Torrents aren't free, either
> the torrent server is going to have to give everybody the bits, or
> somebody is going to have to download them outside of the torrent and
> seed them for people

Jesse, I'm not following your logic about bittorrent. The torrent server 
would not "have to give everybody the bits." Is this why you are so 
against torrents? That's not how they work.

Your automated seeder would be the initial seeder. Once just one tester 
gets it, they will be able to take the load off of the automated seeder 
and spread it even faster to more people, and more people, and more 
people. The automated seeder would not be "overburdened" and would not 
slow down. Millions of people would be able to download an RC if you 
used a torrent instead of an HTTP link.