So I updated my stats from 2017 and made new graphs to show how usage of torrents has progressed since 2012. https://smooge.fedorapeople.org/stats-torrents/ Due to the messiness of the logs.. the data logged is in an hourly file which gives a checksum of the image being shared without any knowledge of what that image is. [This is because tracker is meant to be open and allow anyone to track whatever they want.] The logs only say things like the number of peers, and the number of clients asking for data. It isn't clear if it is showing the amount of actual downloads completed or not. I decided to say it was.. but if that is wrong, oops. In general, I believe we should not stop producing torrents that people can use. Running a tracker and dedicated seeder for that tracker may be less useful for us because of the amount of work it takes to keep it going. The problems are that development on headless opensource trackers and seeders ended in 5-7 years ago. Someone in release engineering has to patch something each release to keep it going. In looking at various distributions, we seem to be the only one still running a tracker. The others just produce torrent files and seem to let the users find peers where-ever they can. -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list -- infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to infrastructure-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
