Re: project status

Why would you want to "consolidate" rsync servers?  If you do this, you
lose stability.  Why?  Because right now the servers are scattered across
the globe.  No matter where you are there probably is a fast, local rsync
server located at a non-bandwidth capped university or generous company.
I guarantee, no matter how much $ you made from orders, that you could not
support the users we have today with the amount of bandwidth that $ could
buy.

A second thing to consider is that, if you consolidate the rsync servers,
and that place has an outage, gentoo's update system goes down until those
servers come back up.

Right now Gentoo ( imho ) is not geared towards corporations.  There are
no easy, readily available tools to roll-out desktops / servers, or update
multiple machines easily.  If you wish to do this, its a fair investment
of time to get it setup correctly.  Until these tools exist, no company
will want to put $ behind the project.

( Some of these issues this project hopes to correct )

The things you speak of "improve the infustructure"
(s/infustructure/infrastructure)
is very broad, and non-defining.

Just my 2cents.

-AllanonJL

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Michael Miller wrote:

> first of all most NNTP servers don't let you download binarys and
> cover only a small ammount of groups. and second of all if the rsyncs
> were consolidated it would require a minimum ammount of effort to
> maintain them, and any problems could be fixed fairly easily. I mean,
> are you saying that if you got a flood of orders you would just throw
> out the money?
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:37:45 -0600, Andrew Gaffney <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Michael Miller wrote:
> > > ok guys you misunderstood me again :P. The additional money you could
> > > earn could be used to improve the infustructure. In theory if the shop
> > > made enough money, you could do things like setup a news server for
> > > gentoo users, or buy a very fast(t3-oc3) line dedicated for portage.
> > > Just because you earn more money, doesnt mean you have to have a
> > > profit!
> >
> > Why and why? There are tons of free NNTP servers out there and there are already
> > tons of rsync mirrors. Everyone doesn't hit the same server for rsyncs. Also,
> > most (if not all) of the Gentoo servers are hosted at universities with fat pipes.
> >
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