DRAFT - Release Guide

[Ken Smith]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:57:05PM +0200, Cejka Rudolf wrote:

> Comments are welcomed ;o)

The ideas are all very interesting.  I've been taking my ideas on what
people would be willing to tolerate from a variety of different sources.
It spans quite a range. :-)  Some people think it would be awkward to
even ask the mirror sites to enforce permission separation by doing
their pulls as a different user than the ftp user.  So, I've not been
sure what is reasonable to set as requirements of the mirror sites.

The key to trying anything of this sort would be finding enough sites
with operators willing to handle the responsibilities of being what
you described as Tier-1 I think.  If there are enough people willing
to act in that role then it's just a matter of doing the implementation.

Are there enough people out there interested in chipping in?  Most of
this seemed like an initial setup "cost" (making sure you're in sync
with current disk space requirements, adding in the snmp hooks, etc),
and then a committment to keep up with future expansion.

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