On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:06:13AM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 07:42 -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
Devs,
Launchpad have allowed my request for a downlaods size exception to expire. (which I'm not happy about) But this does leave us with an important todo item, we must find a new home for our downloads before the 0.91 release because of the very unsafe nature that sourceforge has become.
We do know these things:
- Launchpad can only host our windows and source packages, Max OSX is
too large.
- Our website would not cope with our download traffic.
- We have no mirrors, official or otherwise.
If you have any ideas how we can solve this problem, please discuss here.
From the discussion I think we can conclude:
- We really don't know what demand to expect but need to prepare for an
onslaught in the first month.
- We should have multiple download options as we don't know which will
work well and which won't. We should ask that people link to the our download page rather than to a particular download site. This will allow us to add/remove sites as needed.
This is a good idea to provide a centralized registry of mirrors. Is there a potential the main website could get overwhelmed? I seem to recall OSUOSL is robust with heavy traffic but still might be worth considering contingency plans?
At a minimum maybe the download mirrors list could be put into a (checksummed?) README that could be shared around?
Btw, we should also give OSUOSL a head's up about the release announcement schedule, so the traffic doesn't come as a surprise. (They might also have some suggestions for mirrors.) Martin, would you mind dropping them a line about this?
Bryce
I've collected all the ideas from the email thread and have put them on a wiki page:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Download_Strategies
Tav
Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.cl... _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel