https://fedorahosted.org/InstantMirror/ I have wrote down design notes of the new InstantMirror project. This project is meant to be fostered in Google Summer of Code 2009, with multiple Red Hat engineers as mentors, and possibly multiple students working together as a team. Students are to be judged by their ability to work with others as a team, their ability to implement the plan, and their ability to encourage participation from further volunteers interested in solving these problems. Major Implications of InstantMirror 1. Instant changes on mirrors. From the perspective of users, changed files on the master can appear for download "instantly" on mirrors. 2. Read-only network filesystem that can replicates data in a torrent-like swarming manner, with snapshots and tags to preserve access to previous contents of the filesystem. This has the potential to be far more robust and efficient than rsync mirrors, while being more flexible than reverse caching proxy mirrors. 3. Local versioning backup filesystem. Simply turn off the networking and client-side cache and you have a local versioning filesystem with tags, useful for backups. Space efficiently preserves old versions of your files, while making it easy to access those files. http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs#timeline I am still adding and fixing up the text on this page over the next day. Assuming Fedora is accepted as a mentoring organization, it seems we have until April 3rd to accept applications for Google SoC, then there is a review period after that where we decide who to accept as the official students. We are not waiting for Google SoC to begin this project. Student participation in the project, shaping the prototyping phase and showing community leadership prior to April 3rd will prove that an individual is capable of being official SoC student(s). How can you Help? I believe this project is plenty interesting and useful to our future that other volunteers would also be interested in getting involved. Currently im-devel-list is being created to focus development discussion. We also could use more knowledgeable mentors to aid the student(s) in this project. Warren Togami wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
